Telecommunications industry
Sprint and Microsoft have teamed up to integrate SprintFAX with Windows 95, enabling users to send and receive faxes directly from their PC desktops. This joint effort will provide users with enhanced fax capabilities, including editable binary file documents, and is scheduled to be available in September 1995. The integration
Telecommunications industry
The Pacific Bell's hybrid fiber coax build, a significant undertaking in California, is a striking example of the evolving telecommunications landscape. As AT&T Network Systems provides the underground conduit installation for the access network, the installer, Pacific Bell, has designed the infrastructure to be easily adaptable
Telecommunications industry
SNET, a leading provider of communication services, has secured a significant victory in its challenge against the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. The U.S. district court in Connecticut has ruled in favor of SNET, allowing the company to provide television programming in its own service area. This development
Telecommunications industry
The Shakespeare Project, an innovative interactive multimedia course, has made William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" accessible to high school students in a engaging and immersive way. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, telecommunications company U S WEST Communications, and technology developer ThunderWave Inc., the course uses
Telecommunications industry
PacifiCorp, a leading electric and telecommunications company, reported first quarter 1995 earnings of $105 million, or $0.37 per share, on common stock, compared to $111 million, or $0.39 per share, for the same quarter a year ago. The company's earnings were impacted by mild winter weather,
Telecommunications industry
MCI Communications Corp. has selected the NetStar GigaRouter to support its vBNS (very high-speed Backbone Network Service), the first full-production ATM network installation of the GigaRouter. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the vBNS represents the first operation of a very high-speed network using the Internet Protocol (IP) over a
Telecommunications industry
NYNEX, a provider of network-based telecommunications products and services in the Northeast, and The Chase Manhattan Bank (USA) have launched a co-branded Visa credit card that allows NYNEX residential customers in New York State to save money on their monthly phone bills. The card rewards customers with dollars off their
Telecommunications industry
People's Choice TV Corp. (PCTV) has announced an exclusive sales agent agreement with U.S. Telesys, L.P. (UST) to offer residents of selected multiple dwelling units (MDUs) both pay television and local and long-distance telephone services in all of PCTV's operating wireless cable TV markets.
Telecommunications industry
MCI Communications Corp. has chosen XcelleNet's RemoteWare software as part of a mobile computing initiative aimed at deploying 5,000 employees nationwide by the end of 1995. The initiative involves deploying mobile hardware, software, and networking technology to MCI's business sales and service employees. RemoteWare will
Telecommunications industry
MCI's rollout of new technology to its entire US business sales and service force is a groundbreaking initiative that aims to transform the company's operations. The project, which has already been piloted in Boston and Washington D.C., will be rolled out nationally to approximately 5,
Telecommunications industry
SBC Communications Inc. filed two motions in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 4, 1995, seeking to modify the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) against AT&T. The MFJ had settled the government's antitrust case against AT&T, but
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AT&T has agreed to a Department of Justice plan that will allow Ameritech Corp. to offer long distance service in parts of Illinois and Michigan, contingent on the implementation of local phone service competition in the same areas. The trial is designed to test the feasibility of competition
