Internet Phone Company Halts Operations
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SunRocket, an Internet telephone company, has ceased operations, according to a person briefed on its status.
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Without much warning, customers of VoIP provider SunRocket found themselves without phone service Monday as the company shut its doors.
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Ireland's dominant telephone company, Eircom PLC, shut down services Tuesday to smaller rival Smart Telecom in a dispute over unpaid bills, leaving 40,000 households and businesses unable to make calls.
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The hijack of its domain name on Friday (14 January) has thrown the operations of a New York ISP into turmoil.
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Tele2, one of Denmarkâs largest Internet service providers, said it will fight a court injunction mandating that it shut off access to a file-sharing Web site.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday yanked jurisdiction on Internet telephony away from states, a decision that could set a major precedent for the industry.
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Savvis Communications, one of the world's largest ISPs, said it is terminating service to about 40 of its customers who have been using its networks for spamming purposes.
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Frontline Communications has gone out of business. A payment of $128 million to proceed with its bidding in government spectrum auctions was due last week.
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Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning.
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The US Federal Communications Commissioners freed Internet-based calling from some state rules that govern traditional telephone carriers to encourage providers such as AT&amp;T Corp.
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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AT&#38;T has temporarily suspended a new parental control service on cell phones after it was discovered there were potential issues with 911 services.
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A US federal court has ruled that voice calls over the internet (VoIP) cannot be regulated rules applied to conventional phone services.
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The Internet phone provider now faces paying out hefty damages and a possible shutdown of its service.
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Google shuts down ad-hoc online consulting service.
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The land of Internet calling may not be free of regulation for much longer.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?