The Associated Press
DENVER -- Qwest Communications has seen significant drop in the number of lines it leases to competitors since AT&T Corp. decided to leave the residential phone market business.
New line leases were 50 percent lower in August than June, chief executive officer Richard Notebaert said.
He declined to provide specific members but attributed the loss to decisions by competitors to pull back on aggressive marketing campaigns.
«We are seeing improvement month over month,» Notebaert said. «August was a quite a bit better than July. July was better than June.»
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Alan Stevens
Regular readers of IT Week will be all too aware of the problems I’ve had getting broadband. Or rather, not getting it, either through cables or wireless masts, due to the fact that I’ve always been too far from the exchange for ADSL, no matter how far its reach was extended. Until, that is, a couple of weeks ago, when BT announced it would scrap distance limits on its basic 512kbit/s service altogether.
This is a welcome but not totally unexpected move, as the telecoms provider was known to be running long-distance connectivity trials in Milton Keynes and Fort William.
According to the company, these trials proved that ADSL could be made to work reliably over much longer distances than the current 6km limit. Moreover, it claims, most of the reliability problems encountered during the trials were related not to the quality of the BT lines or their length, but to the state of extension wiring on customer premises.
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Brazil’s main stock index fell for a second day, led by Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA, or Telemar, the country’s
largest phone company.
The Bovespa index of the most-traded stocks on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange fell 242.42, or 1.1 percent, to 22,044.07 at 10 a.m. New York time. The index has fallen 2.8 percent in the week, its third weekly drop in a row.
Following are the stocks that are most active in Brazilian markets today. In Brazil, the preferred share is usually the company’s most-traded class of stock.
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• MobilePro, a Bethesda wireless technology company, said it signed agreements to buy two telephone companies based in Texas but terminated its $3 million agreement to acquire the
long-distance business of
Herndon-based Teligent. Terms of MobilePro’s agreement to buy Affordaphone and Basicphone, both based in Bridgeport, Tex., were not disclosed, but the acquisition will add more than $12 million in annual revenue, the company said. A spokesman for First Avenue Networks, which bought Teligent’s assets in July and made the deal to sell the
long-distance service to MobilePro, could not be reached for comment.
• Anteon International, a Fairfax information technology and systems engineering company, named Richard E. Brown, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, as group senior vice president for Air Force programs. Brown recently retired from military service after a 34-year career. His most recent assignment was as acting assistant vice chief of staff.
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Thomas K. Thomas
New Delhi
INTERNET Service Providers (ISPs) are in for a major setback with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) proposing to restrict them from offering private leased line services.
While the telecom regulator is considering to ask the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to resume provision of leased line resources to ISPs, the latter may be allowed to use it only for providing Internet-based services.
This will come as a big blow to Internet operators who get a significant part of their revenue from corporate leased line services like virtual private network (VPN).
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