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Just a few months ago, Cox Communications declared it was selling its 20 MHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless. The $315 million agreement includes licenses that cover nearly 30 million Points of Presence (POPs), and plays a key part in ensuring customers’ rising demands for mobility can be met. The two
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Comments Off on Verizon Wireless to Buy Advanced Wireless Spectrum from Cox CommunicationsAs we mentioned in an earlier post, many customers are likely surprised to learn that service order rejections are a common delay in the order process. In an effort to help lower the number of rejected service orders, we discussed the start of the ordering process and covered the first three pieces of information required
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An Internet T3 line, also referred to as a DS3 line, is a high-speed connection capable of transmitting data at speeds of up to 45 Mb per second. A single T3 line is comprised of 28 T1 lines, each operating at a total signaling rate of 1.54 Mb per second, and is equivalent to 672
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The popularity of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services as well as other IP communications continues to grow at a rapid pace. As a result, Verizon has launched a new set of offerings that were created to address to the rapid increase of Voice over Internet Protocol in the SMB domain and the ensuing demand
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Comments Off on Verizon Offers Three New Powerful Internet Access and VoIP Packages to SMBsXO Communications’ allegation that the merger would create a “global colossus” that would dominate the Internet backbone market, resulting in higher prices and decreased service quality proved to be untrue and did not change the FCC’s ruling – the transaction was approved. Earlier this week it was announced that Level 3 Communications, a provider for
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Comments Off on Level 3 To Lay off US Workers Now That the Acquisition Is CompleteIn the realm of telecommunications, SIP trunking has become one of the most talked about and fastest moving elements of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) due to the large number of benefits it offers. SIP trunking is provides a cutting-edge working environment by acting as a platform for delivering unified communications, offers centralization of lines
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Global Managed Ethernet is one of the latest services added to the Verizon Business managed services portfolio, due in large part to the growing popularity of Carrier Ethernet. The new managed offerings include Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service, Virtual Private Local Area Network (LAN) Service, and Ethernet Private Line Service. Furthermore, consumers that utilize Private
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Comments Off on Verizon Business Global Managed EthernetAccording to a report conducted by Microsoft, by 2014 an estimated four in ten small businesses are expected to employ multiple cloud services to replace or augment their on-premise IT resources. The report surveyed 3.258 businesses in 16 countries that employed up to 250 people, found that smaller companies commonly adopt an average of three
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VoIP involves reassigning voice into digital data over the Internet. Today, scores of major conglomerates – including Yahoo, AOL and MSN – and households are utilizing VoIP because of the many benefits it provides. For example, VoIP users are able to save on valuable bandwidth because the reassigned digital data is smaller than a standard
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There are basic considerations that need to be thought of when deciding on any service – T1 bandwidth or DSL – one wishes to render. Like any competing services, there are pros and cons that should not be taken lightly. Basically, T1’s are business connections while DSL services work best for residential connections. T1 has
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