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Secret Service seeks systems advice

The Secret Service is looking for help to automate its billing and telecom systems

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Agencies may get paid for spectrum move

Telecom companies that want to acquire governmentused radio spectrum for 3G wireless ventures may have to reimburse displaced federal agencies

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WorldCom looking past FTS 2001

WorldCom is anxious to help agencies extend their capabilities beyond traditional networking services

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Grants spread telecom wealth

A federal program will award funds to extend telecom technologies to rural and underserved urban communities

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TOPAZ could dazzle rural Arizona

The state wants to connect 87 communities with a high-speed telecommunications network

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Mars channel on the horizon?

NASA plans to launch a spacecraft in 2007 whose sole mission will be to handle communications signals between Mars and Earth

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Baltimore wires fleet management

Managers will be able to track and organize the city's snowremoval and streetcleaning services through a new automated system

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Chicago examines fiber-optic expansion

City seeks to determine the economic viability of bringing highspeed communications to every neighborhood

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Verizon teams with San Diego

Verizon will pay San Diego $1 million over the next five years for the privilege of marketing itself as the city's "official wireless partner"

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Lincoln has progress in hand

Mainframing the pocket in Lincoln, Neb.

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GSA lines up better DSL offerings

The General Services Administration has increased the speeds and types of Digital Subscriber Line services available to government workers

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Distance learning without distance charges

New Jersey recently unveiled a statewide interactive distance-learning system

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Commerce rewiring for e-gov

The Commerce Department is forging ahead with a key program that will help spur its e-government initiatives

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Bay area communities getting smarter

A new report shows that most local governments in the Bay area use advanced telecom and IT to improve operations and services

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GSA lines up better DSL offerings

GSA has increased the speeds and types of Digital Subscriber Line services available to government workers nationwide

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Town embraces e-gov, high-tech neighbors

The presence of several telecom companies has prompted Hickory, N.C., to be proactive in electronic government

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Sprint adds PCS to GSA sked

Sprint has added PCS handsets to its list of telecommunications offerings available through Sprint's GSA schedule contract

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27 agencies miss FTS 2001 switchover

Two days past the deadline for switching to the FTS 2001 telecommunications contract, 27 agencies out of the 146 making the transition from FTS 2000 told the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service that they had not completed the switch.

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Field set for FAA scrimmage

Telecom bid review to include information-security concerns

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GSA grants FTS 2000 extensions

Extensions to the FTS 2000 telecom contracts will give agencies several more months to finish moving services to the FTS 2001 contract