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MCI, Sprint juice up FTS 2001
In hopes of enticing agencies to transition to FTS 2001, Sprint and MCI WorldCom have added several cutting-edge services to the General Services Administration's telecommunications contract.
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The Need for Speed
Broadband service is a category of telecommunications technology that provides multiple channels of data via a single communications medium, typically through some form of frequency or wave division multiplexing.
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The Open Access Debate
Last year, officials from Portland, Ore., first began work on a transfer agreement with AT&T Cable Services -- the behemoth telecommunications firm that had recently acquired TCI, the city's local provider and the country's largest cable company.
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Clinton pushes for rural access
On his New Markets Tour, the president continues to emphasize the need to get high-speed Internet connections into rural areas
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State jump starts overseas network
The State Department has put forward more than $1 million from its own budget to start developing a plan that will bring the 40 agencies with overseas presences onto a single unclassified network by 2003
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GAO: Keep FTS exclusive
The General Accounting Office warned last week that opening the government's longdistance business to further competition might cut into revenues promised to FTS 2001 contract holders Sprint and MCI WorldCom and might possibly make the government liable for the difference.
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Comsat Navy deal can proceed
Comsat Corp. can proceed with a contract to provide satellite communications to the Navy beyond January 2001, after a federal appeals court overturned a decision to block the implementation
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DSL carriers seek free phone-wire use
It's possible that carriers could pass the savings on to customers, something that could make such high-speed Internet access more affordable
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Ultra-wideband makes waves
Finding a needle in a haystack isn't child's play anymore, thanks to X-rays, radar detectors and metal detectors. But how about finding a person behind a wall of a burning, smoke-filled building? Or pinpointing the location of a lost soldier in a foggy valley?
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Cutting through the noise
Think of the airwaves as tens of thousands of multilane intersecting highways with the traffic ? communications signals ? to match.
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Navy adjusts terms of intranet deal
The Navy held a closeddoor meeting last week with officials from the four potential prime contractors vying for the Navy's $16 billion intranet contract to map out what sources on Capitol Hill say could be a major change to the contract.
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Changes afoot for Navy's intranet deal
The Navy held a closeddoor meeting Wednesday with officials from the four potential prime contractors vying for ownership of the $16 billion Navy/Marine Corps Intranet contract
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Florida preparing for smart travel
The state is building a fiber-optic network that will span 2,000 miles of its highways and give motorists warnings and notices
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IRS stays with AT& T telecom
IRS renews its contract with AT?#038; T for the agency's nationwide tollfree call center
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FAA joins FTS 2001
The Federal Aviation Administration has reached an agreement with MCI WorldCom to buy telecommunications services through the governmentwide FTS 2001 program, potentially limiting competition on its own multibilliondollar telecom procurement.
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A case for Navy's intranet
Richard McGinn, chief executive officer for Lucent Technologies, has said, 'You either move with speed, or you die.' To do that, most companies use enterprisewide intranets, which enable workers to act quickly as individuals but with the added insight and knowledge of a team.
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DOD ponders DMS marching orders
The Defense Department in the next 90 days plans to conduct what officials described as a 'mass cutover' from a lessstable version of the Defense Message System to the latest release of the software, which Pentagon officials say marks a significant step forward for the beleaguered program.
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The FAA Networks
Transportation's FTS 2001 strategy may dampen competition for $2 billion project
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