Welcome to the Total Telecom news update. http://www.totaltele.com ------------------------------------- today's top story:- Scramble to Appoint Telecom Italia ceo this Week Telecom Italia SpA, Italy's former telephone monopoly, aims to find a chief executive within a week, an official said, after executive chairman Gian Mario Rossignolo resigned, ending a 10-month tenure http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20250/worldmore.html ***************************************** ITU Plenipotentiary 98 Conference in Minneapolis. with the conference moving into it's third week, keep up to date with events as they unfold over the remaining two weeks. Plus an update of the election results. http://www.totaltele.com/plenipot98/ ***************************************** current Total Telecom headlines include..... Nokia Turns to Networks After Becoming Top Mobile Phone Company Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest mobile phone company, said it's introducing several products that will boost subscriber capacity up to 10 times as it plans to increase its presence as a network supplier... http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20274/worldmore.html ------------------ SBC Moves in on Bell Atlantic with Completion of SNET Buy SBC Communications Inc. completed its $6.5 billion purchase of Southern New England Telecommunications Corp., moving the No. 2 U.S. local telephone company into No. 1 Bell Atlantic Corp.'s territory. http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20270/worldmore.html ---------------- Carrier 1 Offers ISPs a Pay-Per-Use Service Carrier 1 has rolled out the first usage-based billing service for pan-European wholesale IP traffic. Europe's newest wholesaler is pitching the pay-per-packet facility as a cost-saving option to attract http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20275/worldmore.html --------------- Omnicom Revived by Long Distance Supermarket Tie-up Omnicom SA shares surged 20% after Carrefour SA, France's largest food retailer, picked the French phone company to offer long-distance phone services to its clients. In a partnership with Omnicom, Carrefour...... http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20271/worldmore.html ---------------- Telekom Says No Date Set for Share Sale Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, said it hasn't set a date to sell a second slice of the company, denying a report that a share sale planned for next spring would be postponed. http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20272/worldmore.html ---------------- plus Asian-American Axis Leaves Europe in the Cold FCC Begins Overhaul of Complex Phone Subsidy System Telecom Italia Chairman Rossignolo Resigns Telia Raises Netia Stake Ahead of Polish Deregulation AT&T, BellSouth to Form New Company to Manage Wireless Venture .....go to the front page for the full list of headlines http://www.totaltele.com ******************************************** Forgotten your password? For help go to:- http://www.totaltele.com/register/reghelp.shtml Any other problems, email:- webmaster@totaltele.com ------------------- If you wish to be removed from future mailings, please reply with "Remove" in the subject line and we will automatically block you from this list. Thank you for reading Total Telecom