by Marva Cossy
Barbadians may have to wait until next year for choice of carriers while making their
long distance telephone calls.
Government had promised to liberalise that market earlier this year but that deadline was pushed to August 1.
Wednesday, Minister of Telecommunications Anthony Wood hinted at a further delay. Wood said a date for liberalising the long distance service would not be given until the conclusion of a request now before the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) which relates to new domestic telephone rates.
In the meantime, the entrant to the mobile telephone markets said they were faced with high expenses and unable to make potential savings which could be passed on to customers who make long distance calls.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (BUSINESS WIRE) Ontus Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: ONTT), an FCC licensed international and
long distance communications carrier, today announced it has signed an agreement that makes Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:LVLT) the underlying Voice over IP (VoIP) provider for its
VoIP phone service. Under the new contract, Ontus will use Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced(SM) Local service to round out its suite of voice over the internet telecom service offerings.
«Our agreement with Level 3 enables Ontus to provide our customers with unlimited calling packages and a broad selection of phone functions usually reserved for sophisticated business systems,» commented Kenny MacDonald, President of Ontus. "Level 3 is the only global provider with the experience and infrastructure that will allow us to offer VoIP in the U.S., Canada and other major international markets. We can now reach over 80 percent of the US and Canadian population with the service, with coverage spanning over 300 metropolitan areas.
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I felt like the luckiest guy in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago when I checked into the Tropicana Resort hotel. I’d gotten a cheap rate at a time when most other Strip hotels were charging two or three times as much.
But I soon found a potential trap that could have made my stay a lot more expensive. The front-desk clerk warned me long-distance telephone charges were $14.40 for the first minute, $1 a minute thereafter.
Wow. I had my cell phone, but what if reception was lousy? What if I’d forgotten my power cord? Three brief long-distance calls and my phone bill would have exceeded the cost of the room.
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IPeria, Inc. (www.iperia.com), the emerging leader of enhanced services software and solutions, today announced that Broadband Telephony Systems (www.bbtelsys.com) has selected IPeria’s ActivStart™ Solution to provide its subscribers worldwide with enhanced services including telephone and
web-based voicemail.
Broadband Telephony Systems offers residential and business users with integrated high-speed services over cable and DSL connections. These services include unlimited local and long distance phone services and additional enhanced services such as telephone and web based voicemail, unified messaging, hosted PBX and auto attendant services for businesses, and the ability to monitor video cameras remotely from the internet. Subscribers can access all of Broadband Telephony services through an easy to use web portal enabling them to configure, control, and monitor their services.
«Broadband Telephony chose IPeria’s ActivStart Solution because it is a complete hardware and software voicemail solution,» said Art Hale, president and CEO of Broadband Telephony Systems. «IPeria has packaged its ActivEdge software applications, industry standard off the shelf hardware components, installation, training, and support services to provide a complete turn-key voicemail solution. This decreases our implementation risk and dramatically improves our time-to-market for enhanced services.»
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GONZALES, La. Dan Ahern has stepped down as president of Eatel Corporation and will be replaced by a member of the family that owns the
Gonzales-based telecommunications company.
Ahern had been president since 1999. He will be replaced by John Scanlan, who has been active in the company’s operations over the last few years.
Ahern was hired in 1996 as Eatel’s vice president of sales and marketing. Eatel spokeswoman Lisa Froman says Ahern didn’t indicate whether he was leaving his current post for personal or professional reasons. But, she says he’s been traveling a lot recently to his home in California so his decision last week to resign was not unexpected.
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