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Non-Tech : Amati investors
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To: John Hunt who wrote (27692)10/22/1997 3:42:00 PM
From: pat mudge  Read Replies (1) of 31386
 
[Internet statistics]

<<<It's easy to see the market is over 40 [million] to 50 million users," he said. "There is also a lot of electronic commerce -- corporations with EDI applications. Intranets and extranets haven't started to drive this market yet."

Maloff said the competition between telcos and the Internet won't be about Internet telephony, but rather on plain old access.

"The rate of growth on phone services is already declining," he said. "Users aren't talking on the phone. They are sending E-mail or files. All of it is impacting the phone business tremendously." >>>

Good article. So many exciting numbers it's hard to know which to quote.

I guess "impacting the phone business" is as good as any. Think if telcos lose their voice business they'll sit up and notice????

I couldn't resist the sports car:
techweb.com

Thanks for posting!

pat
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