STAMFORD, Conn.
(BUSINESS WIRE)Dec. 8,
2003--
Multi-Year Agreements to Provide High Value, Carrier Grade IP Voice Service
Time Warner Cable today announced strategic partnerships with MCI and Sprint, two of the nation’s leading telecommunications companies, for the nationwide deployment of Digital Phone, Time Warner Cable’s residential Internet protocol («IP») voice service. Building on the successful rollout earlier this year in Portland, Maine, Time Warner Cable recently launched its residential IP phone service to select customers in North Carolina. The multiple-year deals with MCI and Sprint will help enable the company to continue its aggressive rollout throughout next year.
«We are pleased to partner with MCI and Sprint and benefit from their experience in delivering high quality phone service, their focus on customer service, and desire to be at the cutting edge of VoIP network development,» said Time Warner Cable Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt. «Capitalizing on their local points of interconnection, our broadband cable system and the efficiencies and flexibility of IP technology, Time Warner Cable is now poised to deliver consumers local and long distance telephony services more efficiently, at a lower cost, and with the reliability and quality of service that customers require.»
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by Anita Jain
Time Warner Cable will roll out Internet-based telephone service nationwide next year with help from partners Sprint and MCI.
The service will cost Time Warner Cable customers $39.95 a month for unlimited local, regional and long-distance service. Noncustomers will pay $49.95 a month. The voice-over-Internet-protocol service is already available in Portland, Maine, and Raleigh, N.C.
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Hearings Begin Wednesday On Controversial Increases
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Who’s your local phone company? It’s a familiar question in a world where local phone service is generally a regulated monopoly.
But perhaps more than anytime since Alexander Graham Bell unveiled his «electric speech machine» the phone industry is changing. For cell phone customers and Internet users, that’s been obvious for some time. But the change may be about to come to Florida’s local phone market.
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By JAN FALSTAD
Of The Gazette Staff
Despite being surrounded by lovers of cell phones, Rhonda Boyd was a late and reluctant convert.
She is executive director of curriculum and instruction in School District 2 and sat through hours of meetings with colleagues hooked on cell phones. But, she wasn’t interested. Ditto for her husband, Patrick Boyd, who is the purchasing agent and contracts manager for the Yellowstone City/County Health Department.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission voted Wednesday to allow Qwest Communications International Inc. to sell long-distance phone service in its entire region, approving the final such application for a regional Bell.
Qwest’s petition for Arizona was the last by a former Bell company to enter a long-distance market after the FCC broke up AT&T in 1984 and barred the local regional Bells from providing long distance in their local markets.
The application process to offer long-distance services began in 1997, when Ameritech submitted the first application from a former Bell company. The application was later withdrawn. The FCC approved its first application in December 1999, when Bell Atlantic’s New York application was approved.
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Move boosts competition in ArizonaAfter a 20-year hiatus, the local phone company in Arizona is back in the long-distance business, and the move could lead to lower rates and more competition.
Qwest Communications International received unanimous approval from the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to offer long-distance services in Arizona. It was the last state in Qwest’s 14-state region to win such approval.
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Stars and Stripes
For the second time in two months, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service has dropped its long-distance telephone rates for U.S. troops in Iraq.
The new rate schedule is a sweet but brief holiday gift from the folks at AAFES and AT&T. Satellite phone and calling center rates will revert to their pre-holiday prices on Jan. 5.
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ISLAMABAD: The Chief Executive of Dancom Pakistan (Private) Limited Muhammad Luqman Kamil Saturday announced the launching of 100 Rupees call points calling cards.
Dancom is a Telecom service provider and its core strength lies in its state of the art telecom system deployment, dedication to manage the core network of 70 offices all over Pakistan with over 1000 personnel, he said in a press conference.
After reduction of call rates by PTCL for countrywide (NWD), International (ISD) rebate of Rs 100 in line rent and installation charges for rural and urban areas Dancom deems this approval of the launch of Rs 100 denomination by PTCL an exposition of commitment to bring the telecom services in the reach of the common men.
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