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COMPTEL's James: CLECs need more regulatory certainty

Las Vegas -- Jerry James, CEO of COMPTEL, said during the keynote speech at this week's COMPTEL Spring 2013 event that the biggest challenge its member companies face, particularly CLECs that deliver competitive services, is a lack of regulatory clarity.

It's time for the entire broadband ecosystem--including voice--to invest

Innovations in technology have meant leaving behind cherished LPs and cassette tapes for CDs and digital music, and throwing out analog televisions and rabbit ear antennae for digital TV and broadband-delivered video-on-demand. Things change, and phone service is no different.

COMPTEL Fall 2012: Continuing coverage from Dallas, Texas

Members of the competitive telecom industry, including both regional and nationwide CLECs, wholesalers and vendors, are meeting in Dallas at COMPTEL Fall 2012. Sean Buckley, Senior Editor of  FierceTelecom , is on hand covering the conference. Read More

TelePacific establishes new channel partnership with Outreach Technology

TelePacific is expanding its service reach by entering into a partnership with Outreach Technology, a national master agent. Under the terms of the agreement, Outreach's sales partners will be able

Competitive service providers launch Broadband Coalition advocacy group

Competitive service providers that serve the business community believe that the FCC needs to do more to drive competition and innovation in the telecom industry, so they have banded together to form

Birch adds lower-rate merchant services for business customers

Birch Communications is responding to small business customers' challenge of processing credit card and debit card payments with the debut of a new merchant service capability. Delivered through a

Integra Telecom appoints Kevin O'Hara as new CEO

Integra Telecom did not have to look too far to find its new CEO as it has appointed former co-founder of Level 3 ( NYSE: LVLT ) and company board member Kevin O'Hara as its new CEO. O'Hara takes over

Sizing up the competitive shifts at COMPTEL Fall 2011

Now that this year's fall COMPTEL Plus show in Orlando, Fla. is behind us, I thought we'd take the time to take a look at some the trends we saw during the show. As has been the case in previous

FairPoint pushes for relaxed telecom regulations in NH

As FairPoint ( Nasdaq: FRP ) continues to move ahead with its reorganization process, the service provider believes that deregulation in its New Hampshire markets could level the competitive playing

MegaPath Wholesale extends Ethernet reach via Telx, sheds Covad Wholesale name

Orlando, Fla.--With its former Covad namesake now a memory, the new rebranded MegaPath Wholesale is taking advantage of its recent plans to build out a nationwide Ethernet over Copper (EoC) network