Arbinet in the News
June 5, 2008
Peering into the Future
Capacity Magazine
Caroline Chappell looks at the growing popularity of VoIP peering and asks if it is yet seriously disrupting the traditional voice market. Artinet CTO Steve Heap comments
May 19, 2008
Arbinet seeks growth in HK, global data market by Tony Chan
CommsDay ASEAN China Edition
Telecom minutes and bandwidth trader Arbinet will expand its data exchange platform offering to Hong Kong at the end of 2008 as part id strategic plan under new CEO Bill Freeman to capitalize on the global growth of data traffic
September 3, 2007
Take the credit
Capacity Magazine
For small operators, financing their business with big established carriers is fraught with difficulties. Tim Phillips examines the prevailing attitudes and looks for a way forward.
August 15, 2007
Billing, Cost, and Revenue Management: It's a Marketing Tool by Bob Emmerson
Von Magazine
Telecom and service providers have become key enablers, a channel to market, for other industries such as information, media, entertainment, and publishing. Sophisticated billing solutions are therefore required so that everybody in the value chain makes money.
August 15, 2007
Lucky Numbers
Capacity
Matthew Whalley looks for answers to the ever-growing problem of number portability in liberalised markets
August 9, 2007
ATSI Enrolls in Arbinet-thexchange to Trade VoIP Services
TMCnet
ATSI Communications, Inc., a provider of international telecommunication services, operates across the U.S. via its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Digerati Networks, Inc. and Telefamilia Communications, Inc. Recently the company enrolled in Arbinetthexchange, Inc.'s voice peering network, an electronic marketplace for communications trading, through its subsidiary, Digerati Networks, Inc.
June 1, 2007
Can pure-play VoIP providers survive in the face of low-cost bundles from more established operators?
Total Telecom
PURE-PLAY voice-over-IP providers face further marginalisation and even extinction as incumbent and cable operators extend their bundles to include cheap IP voice offerings.
May 14, 2007
Corporate Spotlight - Arbinet-thexchange
American Executive
Curt Hockemeier explains how this company has created a platform on which telecoms can buy and sell exactly the way they want to.
May 1, 2007
Cutting Out the Middleman
Internet Telephony
Arbinet, "the leading provider of solutions to simplify the exchange of digital communications," has taken a step into the turbulent ocean of business-model disruption with its recent announcement of PeeringSolutions for the U.S. domestic market.
April 4, 2007
VoIP Peering Revs Up
TMCNet
When talking about VoIP Peering, we must remeber that it is a two-sided coin. One side involves service providers directly connecting with other service providers. The other involves enterprise-to-enterprise peering which reduces service providers to simply providing a dumb pipe over which operate the applications managed by the enterprises themselves.
March 5, 2007
No More Pencils, No More (Paper Ad) Bookings
Ad Week
After a decade of half-hearted attempts, the advertising industry is taking aggressive steps to put in place an electronic system for buying and selling local TV ads. And it's not a moment too soon, because pressure to do so is mounting.
March 2, 2007
Arbinet Launches Voice Peering Solution Tailored for U.S. Market
TMCNet
Voice peering initiatives have recently gained considerable momentum, as service providers and businesses seek to secure more easier and more reliable connections with others while saving on costs?and the easiest and most secure way to accomplish that is through a secure peering network.
March 1, 2007
Ad Industry, eBay Team on Electronic Exchange for Buying, Selling Ads
Digital Media Wire
Major players in the advertising industry have teamed with online auctions firm eBay to create an electronic exchange for the buying and selling of advertising on national cable TV.
March 1, 2007
Arbinet, 4As Pact to Launch E-Trading Directory
Media Week
A critical piece of the e-business puzzle was unveiled Wednesday in Las Vegas during the American Association of Advertising Agencies' session that updates the industry's progress towards developing a paperless transaction process.
March 1, 2007
Ad industry edging closer to electronic trading age
CNET
The American Association of Advertising Agencies plans to launch this spring the first piece of a national effort to enable electronic buying and selling of ads across media. The trade group gave an update on its eBiz for Media project during a session at its annual Media Conference and Tradeshow here on Wednesday.
February 16, 2007
Provider Profile - Arbinet - thexchange
VoIPPlanet
There's more than one way to skin a cat, as the old saying goes - and there's more than one way to route a phone call.
February 1, 2007
Defining the Future
VoIPeering
It has been a very interesting and productive year in the world of VoIP Peering. One of the most helpful developments came by way of definition and was contributed by the efforts of Steve Heap from Arbinet
January 19, 2007
Ten to watch in 2007
Intelecard News
Here we go again. We've scoured the globe to assemble this year's 10 to Watch list. Notice that there is an array of players representing the diversity found within the pages of ICN and within the prepaid industry.
January 9, 2007
Coping with Copyrights
MultiChannel Newswire
As more video gushes onto the Internet, two kinds of copyright-oriented service providers are emerging to handle the flow: those that police the Web for unauthorized digital content and those aiming to more efficiently broker deals between rights holders and distributors.
June 26, 2006
Arbinet boosts TINet traffic
TMC net
(Total Telecom Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Tiscali International Network (TINet) the carrier arm of Tiscali SpA and one of Europes leading wholesale carriers is now a key Tier-1 IP Transit seller on Arbinets data on thexchange in London.
June 26, 2006
Arbinet boosts TINet traffic
TMC net
(Total Telecom Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Tiscali International Network (TINet) the carrier arm of Tiscali SpA and one of Europes leading wholesale carriers is now a key Tier-1 IP Transit seller on Arbinets data on thexchange in London.
June 12, 2006
ENUM's New Spin
VoIP Business News
As tens of millions of people around the world chat over the Internet, vast ENUM (electronic numbering) databases are emerging to help communications carriers translate telephone numbers into IP addresses and circumvent expensive circuit-switched legacy networks.
May 17, 2006
Arbinet Joins Peering Party
Light Reading
The new peering service, called "PeeringSolutions," provides a third party through which "member" VOIP providers can share access to each other's VOIP phone numbers and call routing information, Arbinet says.
March 17, 2006
Deep Impact
Total Telecom
Middle East telecom markets are more dynamic than ever. A wave of reform is driving robust competition in the region.
August 17, 2005
Four Emerging Hot Spots and a Global Trend
Intelecard
Last February, Arbinet, the electronic market for trading, routing and settling communications capacity, tracked several emerging hotspots in the global prepaid market. As we scanned current worldwide call activity, four new markets caught our attention.
August 1, 2005
Voice peering in an IP world
Capacity
The evidence is mounting as to how disruptive voice over IP (VoIP) can be. Start-up providers of VoIP services are not only creating an end-user expectation of voice calls for free, or at low flat rates, they are siphoning traffic off TDM networks and turning the traditional telephony chain on its head. And they being aided and abetted by a new breed of peering exchanges which allow them to cut out the middlemen in the voice call termination process, bypassing voice minutes-based bilateral agreements that have been the mainstay of the wholesale industry for decades.
July 5, 2005
Arbinet launches exchange for trading mobile capacity
Mobile Communications
Arbinet, which claims to operate the largest worldwide electronic exchange for communications services, is seeking to attract mobile operators to its latest platform, which is designed specifically for trading mobile network capacity.
June 20, 2005
Another ENUM Business Model
VoIP Business Weekly
ENUM (electronic number mapping) is a nifty technology that, in principle, would allow anybody with broadband Internet access and presence on a domain to call or be called by anyone else with a broadband Internet access and presence on a domain, without using their telephone service providers to originate or terminate calls.
June 20, 2005
Arbinet Enables Paid VoIP Peering
Enterprise VoIP Planet
Earlier this month, Arbinet announced plans to introduce a new service giving voice over IP (VoIP) companies a way to collect local termination charges for telephone calls to their customers. Arbinet currently runs a fully automated platform for trading, routing, and settling voice calls and Internet capacity between communication service providers worldwide.
June 1, 2005
Arbinet sees market fracture further - Capacity trading on neutral exchanges will grow both in quantity and quality, CEO argues
Telecommunications Online
It could be argued that the consolidation seen among major carriers - such as the merger between AT&T and SBC in the US - does not bode well for the future of a capacity exchange such as Arbinet. Not so, says the CEO, Curt Hockemeier. "Those high profile mergers are not really what is going on in the States. What is going on in the States is a lot of fragmentation." Wouldn't he be expected to say that? "Absolutely, we would," says Hockemeier. "But we think we've got some proof of that, and the fact that there are 1,200 VoIP companies in the world would suggest that the fragmentation is not only continuing but actually accelerating."
June 1, 2005
Arbinet service could lower the cost of Net-based calls
USA Today
Arbinet, a communications exchange company that handles about 15 million calls a day, plans to launch a service next month that could eventually reduce the cost of using an Internet-based phone service.
June 1, 2005
Exchanges Take on Mobile MatchMaking
PHONE+
This spring, two groups came forward to provide separate forums for mobile network operators to find each other to directly exchange traffic. The premise behind both is to provide a single interconnect for more efficient and higher-quality terminating voice traffic - and eventually content and messaging services.
June 1, 2005
What's Worth Watching? - The Premiere Phone+ List
PHONE+
If you don't pay careful attention, things can slip by you. This is especially true of pets, children and innovation. To test your attention span and take a break from telecom's tedious twins of regulation and consolidation, PHONE+'s editors have compiled a "what, when, why, who" list of some of the cool opportunities and enablers for alternate distribution channels as well as some of the stand-out companies in each classification. While certainly not a definitive list, this represents some of the creative solutions for the emerging challenges of today's converging competitive communications environment.
May 10, 2005
Arbinet Adds TDM Traffic Option to New VoIP Exchange
PHONE+
Minutes trader Arbinet-thexchange Inc., which launched what it calls a partitioned softswitch service last year for the termination of VoIP traffic, has now extended that service with the addition of TDM ports for customers that do not yet have the infrastructure to deliver VoIP traffic.
February 15, 2005
Seize the Call
Total Telecom
TRADING exchanges for carriers have traditionally offered quick, least-cost routing for international wholesale traffic.Now they say they can do the same for operators feeling the pinch from MVNO competition and the cost of termination on other mobile networks.
February 15, 2005
Global PrePaid Hot Spots
Intele-Card News
In the mid-1990s, an astonishing 145 million people were living outside their country of birth. This figure is skyrocketing at a rate of 2 million to 4 million new migrants each year. People relocate for any number of reasons. Some escape war or seek newfound political freedom, while others strive for economic prosperity or cultural diversity.
February 15, 2005
Arbinet Goes Mobile
PHONE+
Mobile on thexchange provides a single interconnection for direct routing among network operators for mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-fixed and fixed-to-mobile calls. It optimizes traffic management, routing and settlement, impacting call signaling (CLI), Answer Seizure Ratio (ASR), Average Call Duration (ACD) and roaming. Improvement of these key performance metrics generates more minutes per call, thus more revenue per user for mobile operators, incumbents and resellers, says to Melissa Deep-Schmid, managing director of mobile solutions for Arbinet.
January 18, 2005
Just a Minute?
Capacity
When the concept of charging for voice calls by the minute has been around since the dawn of the telecoms industry, it is difficult to conceive that any alternative charging model could ever replace it. "The wholesale minutes model is part of a mature industry. We are completely used to it," says Johan Dijk, manager, voice services at Versatel Carrier Services.
January 15, 2005
Next-Gen Connections
Fat Pipe
Since its birth as a way for computer geeks to circumvent the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and still have person-to-person voice converation, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has been portrayed as a disruptive and, from a carrier's perspective, dangerous technology.
January 1, 2005
Pay-as-You-Eat Partitioning Turns Resellers into IP Telcos
PHONE+
For carriers, delivering facilities-based VoIP can be an expensive yet QoS-enabled proposition involving building out an expensive core network design, or it can be bare bones, relying on limited infrastructure to deliver best-efforts service. Until recently, it was either-or. Now, a virtual network model has burst on the scene, giving smaller players access to the same quality, control and benefits of owning a large carriergrade VoIP network. Many see it as a sign of real maturity in the market.
November 12, 2004
Arbinet Wins 2004 NJTC Communications Company of the Year
New Jersey Technology Council
The New Jersey Technology Council honored the recipients of its annual NJTC Gala Awards. The NJTC Awards Gala was founded in 1996 to publicly recognize and celebrate some of New Jersey's most successful companies.
November 1, 2004
Exchanges Revisited
PHONE+
The multilateral exchange has gone through many mutations over its short life but now seems to find itself at the meet-me point for clearinghouses and interconnection providers. There now are options for the exchange of IP data traffic that likely will spill over into IP voice, and each tackles the problem from a different direction and set of tools. The traditional TDM minutes traders like Arbinet are going the peering providers one better with a trading, routing and settlement service.
November 1, 2004
Arbinet Honored with VoIP Service Provider Award
Internet Telephony
The first-ever VoIP Service Provider Award was created to recognize the truly market-driving service providers whose pioneering efforts have contributed to the growth of VoIP/IP Telephony.
September 28, 2004
Band-X Exits IP Market
Light Reading
One of the survivors of the bandwidth exchange business, Band-X Ltd., has finally sold its IP transit business to Arbinet-thexchange for $4 million in cash.
July 8, 2004
Arbinet launches electronic trading platform for Internet access
Lightwave
Arbinet's data on thexchange is designed to offer buyers the highest performance "routes" for Internet access based on their requirements and proprietary Internet performance metrics such as packet loss, latency, border gateway protocol (BGP) stability, and jitter. Participating members' IP prefixes are tested hourly using probe packets and assigned a quality score, based on the highest performing paths. This data is stored in a quality matrix database, which a routing intelligence server uses to determine the most efficient routing table by matching the liquid supply of participating sellers' routes to the buyers' pricing requirements. Sellers could include tier-1 carriers, and international, as well as regional Internet service providers.
November 1, 2003
Arbinet - thexchange offers new solution
Intele-Card News
Arbinet-thexchange, which offers trading solutions for buyers and sellers of voice minutes, is now offering SelectRouting, a retail routing solution for premium traffic. SelectRouting initially includes 1,435 qualified routes available to 587 destinations.
October 16, 2003
Arbinet Adds More Service to Arbitrage
Telecom World
Arbinet trades 1.5 per cent of the world's voice minutes and it appears that much of the demand for its services come from those trading capacity or interconnection on routes - such as those into Africa, or Latin America -- that offer arbitrage opportunities. Margins on major routes such as New York-London, after all, are by no means sumptuous. Elsewhere, on the other hand, end users pay a great deal for voice. Retail international users of African Voice and Data Networks, which only operates via Arbinet, for example, pay 7.4 cents a minute to call the UK, but 78 cents a minute to call Bangladesh. Curt Hockemeier, the CEO of Arbinet, does not, however, accept that this is where the value of the exchange lies.
October 15, 2003
Arbinet Speeds Bandwidth Barter
Light Reading
GENEVA -- ITU Telecom World 2003 -- Bandwidth trading firm Arbinet-thexchange has launched a high-speed settlement service in which it uses its own bank balance to pay sellers of bandwidth more quickly.
October 14, 2003
Arbinet seeks to increase traders' liquidity
TotalTelecom
Arbinet-thexchange, a New Jersey based voice minute trader, announced on Tuesday it will accelerate its settlement procedures to ensure its 275 members remain liquid. Its new RapidClear settlement service allows members to collect payment for selling access to their networks in a nine or 18-day total cycle rather than the industry average of forty five days.
October 8, 2003
Arbinet Rolls Out Select Routing
PHONE+
Arbinet Inc., operator of thexchange (www.thexchange.com) minutes trading floor, planned to roll out new routing services with higher quality routes.
July 16, 2003
Trading in positive territory
Global Telecoms Business
Minutes trading has survived the scepticism and is growing. Arbinet is carrying 22 million minutes a day and expects to be cash flow positive this year. It is installing new switches and is looking for growth in the market for voice over IP.
May 20, 2003
Bandwidth Trader
Telecom Asia
Got minutes to sell? Need to buy some? There are 3,000 bandwidth exchanges to turn to, but Arbinet-thexchange has been doing it for ten years in the teeth of plunging prices and carrier meltdowns.
April 14, 2003
Arbinet plans new trading point in Frankfurt
Total Telecom
U.S.-based minutes trader Arbinet-thexchange said this week it plans to expand further in Europe, opening a virtual exchange point in Frankfurt.
April 10, 2003
Minute to Minute
Bandwidth Desk
It certainly ain't rocket science but it may turn out to be more profitable. Trading minutes, that is.
February 12, 2003
Trading Voice Minutes
Capacity
"There always has been a huge market for voice minutes, and a lot of trade, but what we have seen since 1999 is a robust spot market."
January 22, 2003
Arbinet Honcho Predicts Hot Market For International LD
Communications Today
Arbinet-thexchange President and CEO J. Curt Hockemeier told Communications Today this week that the company will expand from approximately 250 members worldwide and more than $275 million in business in 2002 to more than 300 participants and commensurate revenue growth this year.
January 3, 2003
Arbinet-thexchange Introduces Invoices Online
PHONE+
Telephone companies and wholesalers that buy and sell minutes around the world through Arbinet-thexchange can view their bills and a call detail summary online in a PDF file, rather than waiting for a UPS delivery.
November 7, 2002
Small Details, Large Risks
Fat Pipe
Fat Pipe explains how Arbinet-thexchange's automation of the voice minutes market eliminates lots of risk and expense.
October 28, 2002
Emerging Technology Market Highlighted at the EnerTech Capital Forum
Utilipoint
Telecom is not dead. EnerTech Capital professes that Arbinet-thexchange renewed their faith in investment in the telecom sector.
October 16, 2002
Minute By Minute: Facilities-Based Exchanges Continue to Woo Risk-Averse Carriers
PHONE+
Despite contraction among international long-distance minutes exchanges, the survivors report they are profiting from carriers' quest to manage both risk and margins.
September 30, 2002
Planning for changing dynamics in wholesale voice
The Voice
Wholesale minutes trading is yet another sector of telecommunications where a shifting playing field is all part of the game. Bob Barbiere discusses six major trends in this side of the business.
July 10, 2002
Minute Man
Capacity
James Dukart chews the fat with Arbinet-thexchange CEO Curt Hockemeier.
July 1, 2002
Exchanges Offer Alternative to Costly Wholesale Billing
PHONE+
Such an exchange uses business approaches, processes and systems modeled on those used in the financial markets and have the ability to replace the current cost-laden wholesale billing process and prevent disputes that add cost to an industry experiencing unprecedented margin pressure.
July 1, 2002
UTC fiber study will focus on pricing trends
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange Inc. said last week that it signed its 190th member in May, helping to propel its trading volume for voice minutes to a 5-billion minute per year run rate, or 500% growth in just over a year.
May 30, 2002
"Arbinet daily report on minutes market activity offers price, quality comparisons"
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange Inc. has enriched its spot market for voice minutes with the recent introduction of a daily report on the previous day's trading activity in approximately 500 markets worldwide.
April 22, 2002
"Arbinet bankruptcy tool could boost membership"
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange's CreditWatchsm Management System provides bankruptcy insulation for its Members. Larger carrier Members are steering smaller buyers to thexchange in order to screen counterparty's credit.
April 17, 2002
"Arbinet-thexchange Insulates Members with Bad Debt Protection"
PHONE+
PHONE+ reports on how Arbinet-thexchange's CreditWatchsm system helps its Members limit their bad debt exposure.
April 16, 2002
"Arbinet-thexchange has inked a deal with Telenor"
The Bandwidth Desk
Norwegian provider, Telenor ASA, announces its Membership in Arbinet-thexchange.
April 8, 2002
"Norway's Telenor goes public with Arbinet link"
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Norway's Telenor ASA, a diversified global carrier, becomes the first Member to publicly announce their affiliation with Arbinet-thexchange.
April 4, 2002
"In February Arbinet-thexchange introduced 'peak/off-peak' trading on its online voice minutes exchange."
PHONE+
PHONE+ reports Arbinet-thexchange introduces "Peak/Off-peak" online trading.
March 4, 2002
"Market Watch"
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange ended 2001 with an average run rate of 3.4 billion minutes.
March 1, 2002
"Arbinet-thexchange introduced 'peak/off-peak' trading on its voice minutes exchange in select European markets."
PHONE+
PHONE+ reports Arbinet-thexchange introduces "Peak/Off-Peak" online trading in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
February 11, 2002
"Market Watch"
Platts Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange allows Members to buy or sell the same destination at two different prices, depending on time-of-day and/or day-of-week.
February 8, 2002
"Around the Desk"
The Bandwidth Desk
Arbinet-thexchange offers "peak/off-peak" trading as a way for sellers to generate network demand during low-usage periods, while buyers can knock down termination costs.
February 5, 2002
"Trading Desk"
PHONE+
PHONE+ reports that Arbinet-thexchange has turned up its Los Angeles Exchange Delivery Point ahead of schedule, adding to its existing EDPs in New York and London.
January 18, 2002
"Managing Trading For Profitability"
The Bandwidth Desk
Curt Hockemeier, president and CEO of Arbinet-thexchange, bylines this article offering advice to telecom companies struggling to manage profitability.
December 11, 2001
"Bang for the Buck: Arbinet Launches Quality Choice Routing"
PHONE+
Arbinet-thexchange launches Quality of Service routing (QoS), giving buyers a choice of routing international off-net minutes according to a highest-quality-first measurement, in addition to common least-cost-first routing.
November 30, 2001
"Around The Desk"
The Bandwidth Desk
Arbinet-thexchange's new LA EDP enables Members to execute trades with firms in Europe, Asia and North America by connecting to a single location on thexchange.
October 27, 2001
"Bandwidth Trading: Buying Time"
The Economist
The Economist reports that the most popular forum for bandwidth trading is a spot market for voice minutes. Arbinet-thexchange President and CEO, Curt Hockemeier, explains the advantages carriers enjoy from trading minutes in the spot market.
October 3, 2001
"Rough Trade - Switched Gets Rich"
Tele.com
Tele.com reports that while the overall bandwidth exchange market is struggling, one segment - the market for buying and selling switched voice minutes - is surging. As the most widely transacted of all exchange products, it's also generating the most money.
October 1, 2001
"Arbinet-thexchange will incorporate ADC Telecommunications' integrated customer management and billing components"
PHONE+
PHONE+ reports that Arbinet-thexchange incorporates ADC Telecommunications' Singl.eView OSS product in order to provide trading customers with real-time billing information.
September 4, 2001
Some Like It Hot
Capacity
Bandwidth trading has not grown as fast as predicted but the market to trade voice minutes continues to boom.
August 21, 2001
"Arbinet Bullishly Proposes New Standards for Call Exchanges"
ComputerWire
Upwards of 220 carriers express their interest in Curt Hockemeier's proposal that the telecom industry adopt Arbinet-thexchange's International Calling Codes as the global standard.
August 19, 2001
"Broadband markets find narrow trader interest"
Financial Times
The Financial Times reports on the slow evolution on broadband trading. Arbinet-thexchange President and CEO, Curt Hockemeier, is quoted on thexchange's successful minutes focused approach to bandwidth trading, and states his views on the sector's future.
July 25, 2001
"Around the Alley in 30 Days"
Silicon Alley Daily
Silicon Alley Daily continues its "Around the Alley in 30 Days" series with an interview with Arbinet-thexchange President and CEO Curt Hockemeier on the company's successful strategy to assist carriers trade bandwidth more profitably, and his plans for the company's future.
July 13, 2001
"Arbinet-the [Monied] Exchange"
The Bandwidth Desk
The Bandwidth Desk reports that Arbinet-thexchange has survived the recent thinning of the bandwidth exchange ranks by seizing on a real and consistent telecom need - minutes trading.
July 11, 2001
"Arbinet draws $35 Million"
TheDeal.com
TheDeal.com reports that Arbinet-thexchange has lofty plans to change the deal making structure of the telecom industry and has closed on a $35 million fifth round of funding.
July 5, 2001
"Arbinet-thexchange Turns Up London Switch"
Sounding Board
Sounding Board reports on Arbinet-thexchange's introduction of interexchange trading between Arbinet-thexchange's New York and London Exchange Delivery Points (EDP).
June 3, 2001
"Crisis. What Crisis?"
Telecoms Capacity
Telecoms Capacity's editor, Laurence Neville, moderates a panel of industry leaders at Arbinet-thexchange's Telecom Leaders Summit and reports on these companies' strategies for survival in a tattered sector.
May 18, 2001
"Kennard Still Packs 'Em In"
The Bandwidth Desk
The Bandwidth Desk covers former FCC Chairman William Kennard's Keynote introduction at Arbinet-thexchange's Telecom Leaders Summit at the Global Traffic Meeting in Washington, DC.
May 7, 2001
"On-line telecom market gets lift in the downturn"
Crain's New York Business
The wave of failures sweeping the telecom sector-and which most recently drove Manhattan-based Winstar Communications Inc. into bankruptcy-has not been bad news for everyone. In fact, for a fast-growing 5-year-old company...
March 21, 2001
"Dealing profitably in the $800bn 'minutes market' "
Financial Times
The Financial Times interviews Arbinet-thexchange chairman Anthony Craig about the benefits members derive from trading on thexchange's advanced systems platforms.
February 15, 2001
"G.E. Brings Good Things to Arbinet"
PHONE+
Arbinet-thexchange's agreement with GE Capital Commercial Services provides thexchange with global credit risk management, financing and back office support.
February 15, 2001
"GE Capital Backstops Arbinet"
Telecom Business
Telecom Business magazine describes the recent deal between Arbinet-thexchange and GE Capital.
January 19, 2001
"Credit Capital and Exchange Risk"
The Bandwidth Desk
Page 8 of the industry newsletter, The Bandwidth Desk discusses Arbinet-thexchange's recent deal with GE Capital, and how it allows the company to reengineer the terms of financial settlement in the telecom industry, benefiting cash strapped carriers.
December 18, 2000
"Bandwidth War Set for London"
Financial Times
The Financial Times discusses Arbinet-thexchange's new London Exchange Delivery Point (EDP) and how UK and European-based carriers can now physically connect to thexchange.
December 13, 2000
"Arbinet-thexchange hopes to settle minutes deals within days thanks to GE Capital credit risk agreement"
McGraw-Hill Energy's Bandwidth Market Report
Arbinet-thexchange's multi-million dollar deal with GE Capital Commercial Services provides thexchange with global credit risk management services and a variety of financing and back-office support services. This provides additional ways for Members to increase network utilization while reducing their SG&A, network operations and bad debt costs.
November 29, 2000
"Real-time Bandwidth Trading Comes to Europe"
Internet News - International News
Internet News highlights the opening of Arbinet-thexchange's direct connection center in London enabling European telecoms carriers to trade bandwidth online.
October 9, 2000
"Huge trades of phone time to cut prices"
The Boston Globe
Financial wizards have figured out how to make markets for things that once seemed hard to imagine being traded like shares of stock, from orange juice and bacon to the next hour of electricity used by the New England power grid.
August 23, 2000
"Everybody wants to trade bandwidth"
Derivatives Strategy
Derivatives Strategy conducts a comprehensive roundup of the various players in the bandwidth trading market. It also attempts to separate the realistic plans from the hype.
August 17, 2000
"Arbinet Plays Matchmaker to Telecom Firms"
Wall Street Journal
Where to go if you're a telecom company looking to buy or sell big blocks of excess bandwidth quickly -- and in total secrecy? One option: Arbinet-thexchange.
August 14, 2000
"Company Starts Bandwidth-Trading Business"
RCR News
The wireless industry takes a closer look at Arbinet-thexchange and our best-in-class partners.
December 13, 1999
"The Leaders of E-Business"
InformationWeek Magazine
Arbinet-thexchange ranked #62 on InformationWeek's E-Business 100 list of top Electronic Business Innovators. Other innovators on the list include Charles Schwab, Chemdex, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, E-Trade Group, The Home Depot, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Intel, Nortel Networks, and Sprint PCS.
November 11, 1999
"Bandwidth exchanges are seeking to create a perfect market for capacity."
Red Herring Magazine
"While other bandwidth-exchange startups aspired to serve as bandwidth dating services, matching buyers and sellers that would close the deal offline, Arbinet-thexchange raised the bar by providing the option of swapping bandwidth online."
October 4, 1999
"For Sale: Telecom Capacity" (sidebar to cover story)
InformationWeek Magazine
"For the past two years, telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, and others have bought and sold network capacity and services via Arbinet-thexchange."
July 11, 1999
"Jumping Off the Bandwidth Wagon"
The New York Times
"There, in his cramped office above the Pulse Night Club, Alex Mashinsky has created an electronic trading floor for telephone service that resembles nothing so much as the international market for traditional commodities."
April 20, 1999
"Fast Times on the Minute Exchange"
Business 2.0 Magazine
"Waste not, want not. Online spot markets are lining up to exchange global bandwidth on the fly."
