By following some unusual strategies, the carrier that used to be a telecom
also-ran is blowing past competitors
Pop quiz: Which major U.S. telecom company is going to post the fastest growth this year? True, it’s a dismal bunch. The long-distance giants AT&T (T) and MCI (MCIP) are melting like ice cream in a microwave. The Bells SBC Communications (SBC ), Verizon Communications (VZ ), Qwest Communications International (Q ), and BellSouth (BLS ) are looking at a year of stagnating revenues or meager growth.
No, the telecom company with the most juice these days is a former also-ran -- Sprint (FON ). The Overland Park, Kan., company is pegged to boost revenues 6.5% this year, to $27.9 billion, according to Stanley. «It’s a real mover,» says analyst Viktor Shvets of Deutsche Bank Securities.
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NetworkIP and Managed Prepaid Team to Provide Integrated
e-Business Solutions. Strategic relationship will offer prepaid services resellers a complete online solution.
DALLAS, TX (PRWEB) NetworkIP, a leading telecommunications services provider, and Managed Prepaid, a leading e-commerce software provider geared for the prepaid calling card market, today announced a strategic relationship to address the growing demand for integrated e-commerce solutions for prepaid providers.
As part of the agreement, Managed Prepaid will offer its manageIT eCommerce website application to all of NetworkIP’s customers seeking an automated, comprehensive and proven system for companies that are serious about doing business online.
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Seeking growth, cybersecurity firm RedSiren ventures into promising ’
voice over internet protocol’ market
Wherever there are computer networks, there are hackers. Which is why Downtown cybersecurity upstart RedSiren Technologies is tapping into an Internet telephone business thought to be on the verge of exploding.Denver-based
phone giant Qwest Communications International Inc. hired RedSiren this month to install and manage its Internet phone technology -- known as «Voice over Internet Protocol,» or VoIP -- for its corporate customers.
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Financial Gazette (Harare)
Mavis Makuni
Harare
The economic and political situation in Zimbabwe has resulted in a record number of locals leaving home to seek greener pastures in other countries.
The figure of three million is often quoted as the total number of Zimbabweans believed to be living in the diaspora.
This mass exodus has deprived the country of skilled professionals, most notably in the fields of education and health.
The brain drain resulting from the flight of this much needed professional expertise is evidenced by the general decline in the quality of service delivery in the affected sectors.
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Washington — AT&T and the USO are teaming to give convalescing Soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Hospital the ability to call friends and loved ones around the country.
The organizations have partnered to provide 11,120 60-minute AT&T Prepaid Phone Cards to patients at the hospital. AT&T is donating the cards to the USO, which will then distribute the cards to Walter Reed patients.
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