COMPTEL, the trade association for the competitive communications industry, has named Angela “Angie” Kronenberg, former wireline legal advisor for FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, as the association’s chief advocate and general counsel. In this role, Kronenberg will lead COMPTEL’s legal and policy group as the association promotes its agenda of competitive telecom at federal agencies and Read more >>
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TNCI agents waiting to find out the fate of their customer accounts, residual commissions and portfolio options as the CLEC completes its acquisition by Blue Casa Telephone will not have much longer to wait. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Massachusetts has ruled in favor of compelling Blue Casa to either accept or reject the existing Read more >>
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Bankrupt CLEC TNCI is moving towards clinching its acquisition by residential phone specialist Blue Casa Telephone: the bankruptcy court is expected to approve the sale of TNCI to Blue Casa at a hearing scheduled for March 13. However, Blue Casa, which has no channel program in place, has yet to announce a plan for transitioning Read more >>
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Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, has been named an authorized vendor to the Massachusetts state government through the statewide ITT46 Network Services contract. The award enables Lightower and its agents and resellers the ability to offer Ethernet, SONET, Internet access, colocation and dark fiber solutions to Massachusetts state Read more >>
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BillSoft has won a 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Awards from TMC, for its EZTax and EZGeo products. EZTax, BillSoft’s flagship product, is an indirect transaction tax package that can accommodate multiple levels of income and expenses, as in channel partner settings. EZTax calculates taxes across a variety of models, including flat fee, Read more >>
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