The hardest-hit U.S. Gulf areas were wiped out during and after Hurricane Katrina, though it wasn't for lack of some extraordinary efforts by skeleton carrier crews who remained behind to keep equipment online as windows shattered around them and New Orleans was evacuated.
Public hearings being held this week by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) could very well determine the future regulatory framework of voice over IP (VoIP) in Canada.
Corporate demand for next-generation telecom services may keep service providers buying new equipment in 2001, despite forecasts that growth in their capital expenditures will slow.