Alternative Connections: MORE COMPETITION IN PHONE INDUSTRY LOOMING FOR CITY
Apart from the fight over video-dialtone service, there's more competition looming in Albuquerque's telephone industry.The City Council will hear bills tonight asking that franchises be awarded to three telecommunications firms in what has traditionally been U S West territory. The companies, all based out-of-state, are known as competitive-access providers.They provide cable connections between customers and long-distance phone companies. Competitive-access...

Alternative Connections: RICHIE DAVIS Recorder Staff The Town of Greenfield and area school districts that use the Massachusetts Community Network are ''on the line,'' waiting to see whether they will be connected to the statewide high-speed Internet system after this month.
MCN notified its users Friday that in the aftermath of financial problems with its contractor, Waltham-based Digital Broadband Communications, it hopes that Verizon Communications will be able to install a ''frame relay'' land-line to keep the system going beyond March 31. After that, MCN isn't sure that it can continue to operate the network that had been operated by Digital Broadband since December, when it announced that it was...

Alternative Connections: The Northern Echo: Air services disrupted
British European has cancelled its scheduled services to Paris from Newcastle as a result of the 36-hour French air traffic dispute, which started last night at 6pm.Normal operations will resume tomorrow. British European's services to Brussels from Newcastle will operate as normal, and passengers flying to Brussels can take the high speed TGV for alternative connections to Paris.Passengers are advised to contact the airline's website at www.flybe.com or ring...

Alternative Connections: BOULDER ROUTE STILL "PRIORITY' IN RAIL STUDY
A Denver-Boulder-Fort Collins rail route remains on the list of "high priority" commuter routes that will receive further study and possible funding by the state. On Friday, the Colorado Passenger Rail Study Steering Committee altered slightly two of its six high-priority routes and added two alternative connections but did not delete any routes from those recommended for further study. Dave Ruble, project manager for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said the...

Alternative Connections: The gospel alternative
In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom. By John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. HarperSan-Francisco, 464 ...

Alternative Connections: Switch modules and advanced AWG pack performance punch: a PXI/VXI switch-module/platform alternative plus a wide-band, wide-dynamic-range arbitrary waveform
A low-cost, very high-performance alternative to PXI/VXI switch and measurement platforms and an arbitrary waveform generator that offers both wide-band ...

Alternative Connections: Wi-Max proponents tout the benefits of wireless alternative
Tired of new wireless technologies? Then stop reading. Because here's a story about a new wireless system that someday could eclipse the Wi-Fi service ...

Alternative Connections: Mesh takes a higher profile: wireless mesh emerges as a viable wireless broadband alternative for metropolitan areas and campus environments
Mesh takes a higher profile: wireless mesh emerges as a viable wireless broadband alternative for metropolitan areas and campus environments.

Alternative Connections: Embedment Anchor provides alternative to hooked rebar
Based on Shear Cone Theory, LENTON[R] TERMINATOR oversized half coupler secures to end of reinforcing steel and permits rebar to be added without increasing ...