Hearing touches on matters of race as well as telephone company’s rates
BY GREG EDWARDS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Nov 23, 2004
Verizon’s commitment to black Virginians was questioned yesterday as a State Corporation Commission hearing got under way on the phone company’s proposed new regulatory plan.
Raymond H. Boone, editor and publisher of the Richmond Free Press, state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, and others criticized Verizon’s minority hiring practices; Boone and Marsh were among those questioning Verizon’s refusal to advertise in the minority-owned Free Press.
A Verizon spokesman later said that the Free Press’ verified circulation is not large enough to justify advertising.
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Opponents say there’s not enough ’effective competition’ in available service. Qwest disagrees.
REGISTER BUSINESS WRITER
Not long ago, Iowans had only one option when ordering telephone service: the local phone company serving their area.
These days, consumers buy telecommunication services from a number of competing wireline, wireless and cable television providers. State regulators are scheduled to rule today whether those choices form enough competition to allow the market — not the state — to determine phone rates.
The Iowa Utilities Board is considering telephone deregulation in Sioux City, Council Bluffs and 22 smaller markets. The board is also considering deregulating second residential telephone lines throughout the state.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN (MARKET WIRE) City Network, Inc. (AMEX: CSN) a company that designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of broadband and wireless Internet access solutions and consumer electronic products, announced today that it has obtained a new project with Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (NYSE: CHT), Taiwan’s largest telecommunications company listed as an ADR on the NYSE.
City Network successfully obtained an important business contract via an open bid process amongst competition from several very well-established and highly qualified local market competitors. The winning of the contract represents the largest of a series of orders City Network has obtained from the local telecom giant. The total value of this current contract is nearly US$1,000,000.
The agreement provides that City Network will supply a series of products from both Sun Microsystems and software developed by Oracle including two high capacity high-end servers, five middle range servers, twenty smaller servers and arrays of RAID storage peripherals for the servers as well as one related database software packages. Engineers from City Network will oversee the installation, management and maintenance of the project equipment with each of the products being sold to Chunghwa Telecom scheduled to be delivered by the end of December 2004.
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A federal report issued Monday suggests that Amtrak cut its
long-distance routes, including the Texas Eagle that runs through East Texas.
The report by the U. S. Department of Transportation’s inspector general, Kenneth Mead, says the train service should drop long-distance routes in favor of repairing and maintaining short-distance routes in the Northeast, where Amtrak owns the rails on which it runs.
Amtrak leases access to other rail tracks around the country, including Union Pacific in Longview, Marshall and other East Texas cities.
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