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Level 3 has launched a new VoIP service. The service, called (3)VoIP Marketplace. Initial target customers include call center operators, voice portals, and conferencing providers.

Reuters - Electronics firms have a new concept to
sell: wireless home networks that snatch movies, photos and
music files from computers around the house and play them back
on the living room TV and hi-fi. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Have you used too much of your broadband today? According to CNET News, 1% of Comcast high-speed Internet users have been sent letters asking them to curb their usage or risk being suspended or even terminated! But they are not… [ehomeupgrade | The Home Networking & Digital Lifestyle Weblog]

Telecom turmoil is back, if you believe Scott Moritz’s latest piece in The Street.com. And I have no reason not to believe him.
bq. The bug that laid low Level 3 on Monday is about to take a bite out of the rest of the telecom industry. After a brief period of stability, wholesale phone [...]

Verizon Communications Inc., the
largest U.S. telephone company, on Tuesday said 2003 earnings
would fall short of Wall Street forecasts, due in part to the
cost of new labor pacts and weak demand for its services. [Yahoo! News - Business]

Federal Computer Week: “GIG-BE is DOD’s bandwidth World Series — an $886 million initiative to
build a fast, secure, ubiquitous optical network based on IP. It will
connect 100 sites worldwide so warfighters and analysts can post and access intelligence and data more quickly.” [via Werblog]