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Presents information on the launching of the Big Planet as an Internet service provider (ISP). Services offered by the company; Employees that manage the company; Resellers that sells and distributes the services of Big Planet; Access prices of the company.

Presents information on MCI Enterprise Blue, a managed service from MCI Communications Corporation. Description of System Network Architecture networks; Three products that consist Enterprise Blue; Features; Prices.

Reports on the plan of Sprint Communications Company, a United States long-distance carrier, to launch its Data Partners Program in 1998. What the program can provide to value-added resellers and integrators; Similar moves of Sprint's competitors; Comments from Mike Herron, the channel program development manager at Sprint.

Discusses the plans of Eric Benhamou, chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation, for the company. Benhamou's comment on the merger of Bay Networks Incorporated and Northern Telecom Limited; Business partner of 3Com.

Reports on the demand for comprehensive network-management tools to customers. Reason for the demand; Forecast of Cabletron Systems Incorporated on network management tools; Implications of the growth of laptops and other devices; Effort of Cabletron to develop a channel through the networking division it acquired from Digital Equipment Corporation.

Presents highlights of the Supercomm, a telecommunications industry conference held in Atlanta, Georgia in June 1998. Topics discussed by Richard Notebaert, chairman and chief executive officer at Ameritech; Amount spent by Ameritech to modernize its data network; Comments on the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Presents information on the broadband network of switching routers called Integrated On-demand Network (ION) as utilized by long distance carrier Sprint Corporation. Cost of building the network; How to access ION; Advantages in using the network.

Focuses on the possible support of many computer companies on the standard version of digital subscriber line (DSL), called DSL Lite in the 1998 SuperComm convention. Description and capabilities of DSL; Comment from resellers about DSL.

Discusses the selling of Cable & Wireless Limited by MCI Communications Corporation to acquire the approval for its merger with WorldCom Incorporated. Comments from companies that opposed the merger; Reason of companies for opposing the merger; Implication of the selling of Cable.

Presents products related to asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) service unveiled by Cisco Systems Incorporated and Pacific Bell company. Applications of the products; Installation charge for ADSL packages; Price for monthly service.

Reports that Asian and European telecommunications carriers joined the Universal Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line Working Group. Vendors that have joined the group; Reasons for the creation of the group; Implications of the increase in the group's membership; Telecommunications-equipment manufacturers that are members of the group.

Provides information on digital subscriber lines (DSL) service. Information on DSL; Information on the WildWire IP ADSL Access System introduced by Lucent Technologies Incorporated; Details on the FlowPoint 144 IDSL router and the FlowPoint 2200 SDSL Router from FlowPoint Corporation.

Focuses on the argument regarding the provisioning of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the United States government's Internet name transition plan. Advice of Ira Magaziner, senior advisor to the president for policy development; Importance of a paper released by the government; Applications of the plan.

Reports on the hiring of Mike Giovia as director of strategic relations of Novell Incorporated. Job description; Details on BellCore Company, former company of Giovia; Information on the CT Pioneers organization founded by Novell.

Focuses on the issue on whether Qwest Communications with partners Ameritech Corporation and US West Communications Group will sell packages of local and long-distance services. Long-distance carriers that filed the lawsuit against the partnership; Act violated by the firms.

Presents information on the 1998 first quarter income and revenue of several computer distributors. Net income of CHS Electronics Incorporated; Sales increase of Pioneer-Standard Electronics Incorporated; Revenue of Daisytek International Corporation.

Announces that MCI Communications Corporation unveiled service-level guarantees for customers using the carrier's network for data traffic. Advantages of the service-level guarantees; Information on MCI's data service plans.

Reports on Sprint Corporation's partnership with IBM Corporation where it hopes to remove business customers with System Network Architecture (SNA) networks off their private lines and onto Sprint's own Frame Relay network. Details on the partnership between the two companies; Features of Sprint's Frame Relay network.

Announces that WorldCom Incorporated plans to combine its Uunet Technologies Incorporated and ANS Communciations business units under one roof, Uunet WorldCom. Other company's divisions that will also be combined; Details on the company's consolidation plans.

Reports that two AT&T Corporation divisions released services and separately threw some financial and technical support to a university-led, next-generation Internet project called Internet2. Identification of AT&T's divisions; Information on the Internet service plans of AT&T's divisions.

Provides information on the flaws of intranets and the Internet. Impact of the collapse of the Frame Relay network of AT&T Corporation; Types of network imperfections and their impact to users.

Presents information on the competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC). Reason for the popularity of CLEC; Benefits of CLEC for value added resellers (VAR); Details on Teleport Communications Group, a CLEC acquired by AT&T.

Details the perspective of major companies in the computer industry about the Windows 98 crash during the 1999 Comdex/Spring exhibition. Comments from industry executives; Challenges in achieving seamless integration of Internet Protocol (IP) networks; Hurdles faced by the Internet to be an all out equipment.

Reports the discovery of the bug that brought down the Frame Relay network of AT&T Corp. and the promises of the company executive to prevent it from corrupting the network again. How the failure of the network at AT&T occurred; Partner of AT&T in working with the network.

Reports on a restructuring package outlined by GTE Corporation. Details on the industry trend of consolidations; Plans of GTE to sell some operations; Cost savings from the move.

Provides information on the Network Based Exchange 100, a Web-based phone system from NBX Corporation. Information on the technology; History of NBX; Development of computer-telephone integration.

Reports on the start of the testing of the digital subscriber line (DSL) high-speed access service by America Online (AOL) Incorporated. Partnership of AOL with GTE Internetworking for the project; Information on GTE Internetworking; Cost of the service.

Reports on the plans of GTE Network Services to launch its asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) in June 1998. Suppliers of GTE's ADSL hardware and subscriber lines; Benefits of this service on the customers; Details on the packages that the company will sell; Other plans of GTE for its ADSL.

Reports on a failure suffered by the entire frame-relay network of AT&T Corporation. Consequences of the failure on the company's customers; Statements of apology to the customers of the company; Details on how the disruption of the network started.

Provides information on the Internet access service of the AT&T Corporation. Internet pricing of AT&T's WorldNet Service; Significance of the service costs to Internet users; Customer claims of Hughes Network System.

Focuses on the complaints of some customers against Hughes Network Systems who claim that the company is not providing the Internet access service it promised. Other charges of customers against the online service of the company; Background of the DirectPC service of the company; Service packages offered by the company; Customers of the service.

Interviews Ray Smets, president of BellSouth.net Inc. Capabilities of BellSouth.net; Difference of the customer service offered by BellSouth.net; Purpose of BellSouth.net in avoiding Internet Protocol; How BellSouth.net managed their relationship with resellers.

Reports that the proposed WorldCom Corporation and MCI Communications Corporation deal is being scrutinized by more than the U.S. Department of Justice. Reason why the merger should be stopped.

Deals with the partnership of International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. and Ingram Micro Inc. to boost the sales of computer telephony (CI) technology. Marketing approach to be used by IBM for the CI products; Issues that should be considered by companies regarding CI; Implication of the marketing plan of IBM; Independent software vendor (ISV) that will release the CI technology.

Highlights several computer vendors that showcased products at the 1998 Computer Telephony (CT) Expo. Features of the Transcend software demonstrated by Rockwell Electronics Commerce Division; Unveiling of the Internet protocol (IP) telephony gateways of Comdial Corp.; Target market of IP telephony gateway released by VocalTec Communications Ltd.

Discusses the withdrawal of Mindspring Enterprises Inc. from the Council of Registrars (CORE). Reason why Mindspring withdraw its membership; How CORE was formed; Internet domain names proposed by CORE.

Deals with the unveiling of Internet products during the 1998 InternetWorld conference. Introduction of the Preferred Access 768 digital subscriber line from Uunet Technologies; Internet service from GTE Internetworking; Release of the Destination Fax from GTE Corp.

Reports that the merger between MCI Communications and WorldCom Corp. have been endorsed by its shareholders. Antitrust concern on `peering'; Impact of the proposed merger to the Internet backbone community; Antitrust investigation launched by the European Commission.

Deals with the plan of U.S. West company to expand its application services for business and consumers. Partner companies of U.S. West; Applications and services to be offered by the company.

Provides information on Starchange Integrated Voice Grade Server developed by StarVox Inc. Features of the product; Computer telephony standards passed by the product; Price of the product.

Provides information on the VocalTec Network Manager product developed by VocalTec Communications Ltd. for Internet Protocol (IP) framework. Purpose of VocalTec in releasing the product; Other companies that released products for IP.

Predicts the growth of telecommunications industry with the expansion of the Internet. Predicted revenue of telecommunications by Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA); Factors affecting the growth of the market; How the internet protocol (IP)-telephony business will affect the growth of telecommunication.

Deals with the Computer Telephony Expo that will emphasize the market of Internet Protocol (IP) and the Internet. IP products to be displayed in the show; Predictions of resellers on the sales of IP products.

Discusses the effects of the price increase implemented by American Online Inc. (AOL) on its Internet service. Effectivity of the price increase; Various comments on AOL move.

Presents Q.talk, an Internet-telephony (IP) service offered by Qwest Communications International Inc. to small business. Number of cities served by Qwest; Estimated cost of IP phone service per minute.

Reports that Uunet Technologies Inc. has introduced service and hardware packages for value-added resellers (VARs). Partnership of Uunet Technologies with three communications hardware vendors; Business strategy of the company that targets small-business.

Details the resellers program developed by Sphere Communications Inc. for marketing its telephone switch products. How resellers benefit from the marketing program of the company; Features of StratoSphere product of the company.

Provides information on the acquisition of InterNex Information Services Inc. by Concentric Networks Corp. Services offered by the two company; Benefits of the acquisition to Concentric Networks; Other facilities operated by InterNex.

Discusses the demonstrations of switch vendors on voice-over-IP technologies at ComNet. Strategies previewed by switch vendors on the technology; Comment of carriers on the transition; Implication of the software.

Announces that the Frontier Communications, a long-distance service company, has moved to acquire GlobalCenter, Web-hosting service provider. Amount of the acquisition; Impact of the deal on the reputation of Frontier Communications.