Jack - I think that this is the most interesting part of the
article...Might be some companies in here to watch and/or partner with..
Certain entrepreneurs, however, like Latic
Communications, the Global Exchange Carrier
Company (GXC), IDT, and USA Global Link,
are pushing Internet telephony across the public
network. Another player, Delta Three (now
majority owned by the international carrier RSL
Communications), offers inexpensive
long-distance service over IP networks. In
January the Israeli company became the first to
offer phone-to-phone IP calls, and it is at the
forefront of a new group of companies called the
next-generation telcos.
Delta Three sets up gateway servers in foreign
countries through arrangements with local ISPs
and post, telephone, and telegraph
administrations (PTTs). A caller using Delta
Three's network will place a PSTN-based call in
Ohio, for example, that will be routed to New
York, where the call will transfer to an IP
network via Delta Three's gateway. It can then
be terminated in any of the 12 countries in which
Delta Three has gateways installed. The
company's primary business is as a carrier's
carrier--selling minutes of telephone use to other
service providers that resell them to end users.
The business is very young, but Delta Three's
chairman and cofounder, Jacob Davidson,
recently told The Herring that the company has
inked a deal with a well-known
telecommunications company to "terminate well
over a million minutes a month." Mr. Davidson
claims that the deal proves the growing interest of
established carriers in exploiting IP-based
networks. |
