Oftel has called for the introduction of carrier pre-selection (CPS), the system which will allow phone users to bypass BT when making national and international calls. In the US, carriers select a long-distance carrier such as AT&T, Sprint or...
British reseller, Action Computer Supplies Holdings, has called off its proposed merger with US company Insight Enterprises Inc. Action said the merger was cancelled because of predictions of slow sales and deteriorating results.
The telecoms infrastructure business, including carrier and optical networking, had a better year 2000 than expected, and Alcatel still expects to meet previously announced revenue targets for this year.
A spokesman for the pigeon carrier service said: "We are going to retrench the pigeons to save the 5.4m rupees (£78,000) we spend annually on them. The Orissa state pigeon carrier service in India is cruelly sacking two-thirds of its winged...
Versatel, the Dutch data carrier which went E1.7bn (£1.1bn) into the red when it built a pan-European cable network, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Despite the perilous financial state of the company, the market reacted positively to the news...
By Aloysius Choong Singapore's mobile operators MobileOne (M1), SingTel Mobile and StarHub have inked an interoperability deal for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the trio announced yesterday. This means mobile phone users are now able to send...