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To: transmission who wrote (10322)	2/17/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Pamela Murray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

What's with todays drop? Sometimes I feel that I need a 10 step program here. Damn... Pam

To: transmission who wrote (10322)	2/17/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Pamela Murray	Respond to of 12468

David R. Schmieg, Former WinStar & Sprint Senior Executive, to Reinforce Diginet's Leadership Role in Latin America WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move that reaffirms its position as a broadband wireless leader in Latin America, Diginet Americas, Inc. today announced the appointment of David R. Schmieg to the position of Chief Executive Officer. An innovator in the telecommunications industry, Schmieg brings to Diginet 28 years of leadership experience in executive positions with WinStar, Sprint, AT&T and Southwestern Bell. Building upon his recent successes, Schmieg will direct and manage the roll-out of Diginet America's wireless broadband service in the major urban markets of Latin America. "Dave is an extraordinarily accomplished, talented and dynamic telecom executive," said Scott Puritz, Chairman of Diginet Americas, Inc. "His pioneering experience at building a successful wireless broadband business at WinStar Telecommunications makes him uniquely qualified to take Diginet to the next level and build the Company into a world class telecom player." Prior to joining Diginet, Schmieg served as Group Executive, President and COO of WinStar International, Inc. with P&L responsibility for WinStar's global business plan to build out 50 markets in five years with primary focus on Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. "I am excited to join this fast growing company which has attracted talented executives in the industry and is backed by an impressive group of telecom-savvy private equity investors," said Schmieg. "Diginet is ideally positioned for rapid growth in Latin America by providing quickly deployable, high speed, broadband service as an alternative to the traditional telecom infrastructure." From 1996-1998, Schmieg was President and COO of WinStar Telecommunications with P&L responsibilities for WinStar's CLEC business. As President and COO, Schmieg led the design and implementation of the infrastructure of the national sales and service groups, marketing, network and wireless services, financial operations, customer satisfaction and all business and operating support systems, growing employees from 30 to 1,300. He led the company's expansion of 38 Ghz wireless broadband services for business-to-business customers into 24 major U.S. markets and grew revenues to an annual run rate well over $100 million. Prior to joining WinStar, Schmieg held senior management positions at Sprint, AT&T and Southwestern Bell. At Sprint, Schmieg was Chief of Staff of the Long Distance Division and also President of the Consumer Division, with P&L responsibility for over $2 billion of revenue, 7 million customers and 4,000 employees, and is credited with leading the introduction of the highly successful Sprint Sense program. Schmieg was graduated magna cum laude from Central Methodist College with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Economics. About Diginet Americas, Inc. Diginet Americas, Inc. is a facilities-based telecom provider offering services through its own fixed wireless broadband networks. Currently, Diginet Americas has licenses and telecommunications operating authorities to build, own and operate communications services in Argentina, Brazil andColombia. Diginet Americas, Inc. has already launched its service branded Diveo(R) in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is planning 1999 launches in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Bogota, Colombia to address the growing demand for bandwidth in these metropolitan markets. Please learn more about Diginet Americas, Inc.'s mission, business proposition and service offerings by accessing the Web site at diginetamericas.com.

To: transmission who wrote (10322)	2/17/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: Pamela Murray	Respond to of 12468

February 16, 1999 08:16 TEOCO CORPORATION APPOINTS VICE PRESIDENT FOR TELECOM SOLUTIONS GROUP Jump to first matched term FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--TEOCO Corporation - The Employee Owned Company - today announced that it has appointed Thomas Kins as Vice President, Telecom Solutions. The appointment is effective immediately. Kins, 41, comes to TEOCO with more than fifteen years of telecommunications industry experience. His most recent assignment was with WinStar Telecommunications Inc. where he served as Senior Director of the Carrier Settlements and Carrier Relations group. Prior to his time at WinStar, he served as Director of Carrier Accounting and Financial Tracking Systems at Cable & Wireless USA. In his new position, Kins will report to Atul Jain, TEOCO's founder, President and CEO. "Tom is a recognized industry expert in the areas of access charges and access reform," said Jain. "We wanted to bring this depth of expertise to our clients in the telecommunications industry. This will further strengthen the position of the TeoSoft Telecom Series as the leading suite of access auditing solutions. Tom's experience will prove equally valuable in serving the needs of clients of TEOCO's Telecom Audit Service Center (TASC)." "It has long been my goal to bring industry leading solutions to the telecom marketplace," said Kins. He went on to say, "I am confident that, together, we can make TeoSoft Telecom Series the industry standard. The energy and drive of the people at TEOCO is very compelling." The TeoSoft Telecom Series allows carriers to electronically import, analyze, audit, and pay invoices received from other telecommunication firms, including LECs, long distance wholesalers, and other providers. Using the workflow management tools provided, users can streamline their cumbersome invoice auditing function, allowing auditors to spend more time reviewing and auditing the thousands of invoices a typical carrier may receive each month. Integration with a carrier's traffic reporting, rates and tariffs, and accounts payable systems automates the otherwise tedious process of auditing and paying invoices. Founded in 1994, TEOCO Corporation is a rapidly growing Virginia based company providing software products and services. The company continues to be a leader in providing practical solutions for complex distributed information systems in such diverse industries as telecommunications, energy, and financial services. TEOCO specializes in the areas of software engineering, systems engineering, and systems integration and unconditionally guarantees the value of its services. The company's clients include: Mobil Corp (NYSE:MOB), WinStar (NASDAQ:WCII), e.spire Communications, Inc.(NASDAQ:ESPI), US West (NYSE:USW), TRW (NYSE:TRW), Cable & Wireless PLC (NYSE:CWP), Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE), Excel Communications (NYSE:ECI), Daimler Chrysler (NYSE:), GEICO, Siemens, CCMI, SRA, and Linguateq.

To: transmission who wrote (10322)	2/17/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Pamela Murray	Respond to of 12468

From Telecomm online: News Briefs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellcore Unveils Solution Seeing a demand from customers for a simple way to manage and respond to e-mail, voice, fax and pager messages, Bellcore is rolling out a next-generation unified messaging solution. Manitoba Telecom Services is the first service provider to trial the solution, which allows the sender's medium of choice to be different from the recipient's medium of retrieving the message. Other trials will be announced shortly. With the Bellcore system, voice and data transmissions are captured and stored in a single mailbox and the user can retrieve them using a telephone, cellular phone, fax, pager or the Internet. The Bellcore solution is based on the input of 12 of the company's partners and scales into the hundreds of millions of users. Web Sites Fail on Customer Service Forty-two percent of the top-ranked Web sites either took longer than five days to reply to customer e-mail inquiries, never responded, or were not accessible by e-mail, according to a recent report by Jupiter Communications. The Jupiter report involved 125 sites and focused on five categories: content, consumer brands, travel, retail and financial services. Most retail shopping sites performed the best, with 54 percent responding in less than one day. However, 19 percent of the travel sites tested took at least three days or never responded to the e-mail inquiry. WinStar Tackles International Markets WinStar Communications will accelerate expansion of its fixed wireless broadband network to six international markets by the end of the year and 50 international markets over the next five years. The company announced plans to serve Amsterdam, Paris, London, Tokyo, Sydney and Buenos Aires, drawing on an alliance formed with Lucent Technologies last year. WinStar has obtained spectrum licenses in the Netherlands, has filed applications for commercial licenses in Germany and France, and will file for licenses in Belgium and the United Kingdom early this year. Agreement Reached on Merged Protocol Level 3 Communications and Bellcore have merged their respective technical specifications into a new protocol designed to bridge the PSTN and emerging IP-based networks. The merged specification, to be called the media gateway control protocol (MGCP), is a combination of the Internet Protocol Device Control (IPDC) specification developed by a consortium formed by Level 3 and made up of leading hardware and software vendors, and the Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP) developed by Bellcore and Cisco Systems. A draft of the specification was recently submitted to groups within the Internet Engineering Task Force and European Telecommunications Standards Institute for review. US West: Wireline, Wireless on One Number US West has launched a new service in the Phoenix market that allows existing customers to add a second phone line that can be used with both a wireless or wireline phone that have the same phone number and voice mailbox. In this scenario, if a subscriber will be away from home, he can turn on his PCS phone and calls will automatically follow him without having to punch in a special code. If a customer doesn't answer either phone or if they are in use, all messages go into a single voice mailbox. This type of approach, pioneered by Bell Canada, is the first application in the United States, according to the company. US West expects to introduce the service, called Everywhere Additional Line, in other cities where it offers PCS over the next several months. Wireless DSL Hits Bay Area Looking for ways to curtail some of the negatives associated with DSL services, broadband wireless local loop provider Wavepath has introduced wireless DSL to the San Francisco Bay area. Wavepath iSpeed, available from a handful of ISPs in the Bay area, virtually eliminates the current problem of black-out zones with a nearly 90-percent availability rate to homes and businesses. Installation time is less than a week, and the service retails for about $150 per month for 384-kbps two-way speed. Necessary equipment includes a wireless desktop modem, a small send/receive dish, and cabling for an installation fee starting at $800. Microsoft, Qwest Strike Deal Microsoft and Qwest Communications have formed an alliance that includes the licensing of a broad range of software, including Windows NT Server to Qwest and the purchase by Microsoft of $200 million worth of Qwest's common shares. The deal gives Qwest better technological footing as it delves into e-commerce; Microsoft achieves greater involvement in telephony and the Internet.