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Technology Stocks : I-Link Inc (ILNK), VoIP Telephony
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To: Fred Puppet who wrote (31)4/23/1997 2:03:00 PM
From: Ski   of 417
 
Hi Fred-

If you have read the 10k you can see that I-Link is attempting to do something very different. From what I can tell, the medical imaging part of Medcross may soon be a thing of the past. I-Link is actually a seperate company ( owned by Medcross ) located in Utah. It is run by a group of former IBM and Novell network gurus that seem to have all graduated from Brigham Young and Utah State. They seem to have some very talented people on-board.

I-Link does'nt seem to be attempting to be one of the typical 280 telecom providers. It basicly states in the 10k why I-Link purchased FTI. It was not just to resell long distance;

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>>>Access to the switched telephone network
is a necessary component of the I-Link Intranet in order for phone and fax transmissions to be routed to destinations in lesser populated geographic areas that are not serviced by one of I-Link's Communication Engines, which the Company estimates encompasses approximately 15% to 20% of users nationwide. In addition, the access to the switched telephone network at favorable pricing that
FTI affords to I-Link permits I-Link to rapidly develop and expand its customer bases in given geographic areas across the switched telephone network until such time as management determines the size of the customer base and the capacity and timing of the deployment of the I-Link Intranet in the area can support the transfer of the customers from the switched telephone network to the I-Link Intranet.<<<

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They are going to create a large customer base then geographicly switch them over to the I-Link Intranet as it becomes cost effective. These "Communication Engines"(TM) are quite a piece of work if they can accomplish what they say they can do. Converting analog to digital and then controlling the routing from point to point. Basicly you can make a long distance call for the price of a local call. Once it's in digital form there are a lot of other things they can do with the packets including multiplexing and compression.

This is going to be some network if they can pull it off ahead of competition and hopefully the FCC will stay out of the equation.

Have a good day.

Ski
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