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people MILESTONES Mike Volpi, ex-Cisco, joins Joost as CEO, succeeding founder Fredrik de Wahl, who remains chief strategy officer CompTel Pres. Earl Comstock resigns to pursue other interests; past CompTel Chmn. Jerry James to be interim CEO Former NTIA Director Michael Gallagher becomes Entertainment Software Association president Lisa Zaina, Independent Telephone & Telecom Alliance executive director, moves to CTIA to work on state regulatory affairs Sprint Nextel’s Keith Cowan will oversee Sprint’s JV with Comcast Corp., Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communication … Earthlink has named Rolla P. Huff, ex-chairman and CEO of Mpower Communications, as president and CEO. … Matthew Flanigan, former president of TIA, to become Electronics Industries Alliance interim president and CEO Vonage CEO Michael Snyder resigns, replaced on interim basis by Chairman Jeffrey Citron Paul Sunu, ex-Madison River Communications, named Hawaiian Telecom chief financial officer Telcordia Technologies promotes Mark Greenquist to president and CEO, replacing Daniel Carroll, who remains board member Former leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dick Gephardt, will join Embarq’s board of directors … Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert announced that he will retire when a successor has been selected … Ronald Bittner, former president and CEO of Rochester (NY) Telephone Co. was inducted into the Rochester Business Hall of Fame this year. IN THE NEWS In Memoriam Chris Goff, North Pittsburgh Telephone Company, passed away April 2 after a battle with cancer. Goff chaired USTelecom’s Engineering Committee and participated on other USTelecom groups. Verizon said that a family of five in Massapequa on New York’s Long Island were the millionth household to be connected to its residential fiber-optic service, FiOS. … Comporium is donating several trucks to help the maintenance workers at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB) by replacing old, run-down vehicles. Congratulations go out to Dunkerton Telephone Cooperative, which celebrated 100 years of operation in April. BUSINESS BITS Teachers Pension Plan. … AlcatelLucent is acquiring networking supplier Tropic Networks Inc. Wireless communications company Rural Cellular Corp. purchased four wireless markets in southern Minnesota from Alltel Corp. for $45 million. … Occam Networks helped Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative (Pikesville, TN) go live with a network upgrade to provide voice, data and video services over a hybrid copper/fiber network. … CenturyTel and EchoStar agreed to a multi-year extension of their strategic partnership. … UniTel, Inc., (Unity, Maine) has selected and deployed the Procera PacketLogic 7600 to monitor and manage the company’s network traffic and services … Shidler (OK) Telephone Company has deployed CopperCom products to meet CALEA requirements and replace its legacy switch. … Cross Telephone Company (Warner, OK) has deployed ADVA Optical Networking’s Fiber Service Platform to update its network backbone … Western Illinois Video Networks (WIV), a statewide consortium of eight rural telephone service providers, including Oneida Telephone Company, MTC Communications, Diverse Communications, New Windsor Cable Communications, Viola Communications, Reynolds Communications, Laharpe Video, and Mid Century Communications has licensed ViewNow’s VOD programming and usage tracking software for an IPTVbased service deployment. Fall 2007 COMMUNICATIONS CROSSROADS CC Communications (Churchill County, Nevada) has implemented the CommSoft CABs product, replacing an in-house solution. … Bell Canada has accepted a $51.7-billion takeover proposal by a consortium led by Ontario 25

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