First Internet-Based Flat Fee Long-Distance Phone Service
usatalks.com
[All, This is altogether uncanny. Last night I had a discussion about the use of voice recognition to circumvent the multiple digits required for dialing credit card and voip calls, and today I come across this article. Wherein: "...patented technology allows telephone-to-telephone calls using simple, fast call placement. To use the service, callers will simply dial a local number and vocally state the number they wish to call." Interesting development. I wonder if each caller will habe to teach the popware or centralized data base their voice print patterns with regard to their digit-specific signatures. What do you think? And what do you think about this statement they make: "High-ratio Speech Compression is used to assure the quality of the call." Hmm. Regards, Frank C.]
USA Talks.com to Build First Internet-Based Flat Fee Long-Distance Phone Service; New Company Provides Lower Cost National Telephone Network to Small Businesses and Home Offices
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 1998--USA Talks.com Inc. (OTCBB:USAT) today announced plans to build a National Telephone Network using the Internet to transmit long-distance voice calls.
The company is the first Internet phone long-distance service provider to offer unlimited service at a flat-rate-per-month.
"We are on schedule to offer its long distance phone service throughout the state of California, its first service area, by the end of September 1998," stated Allen Portnoy, USA Talks.com chief executive officer. "We expect to proceed across the country and "light up" at least 34 major metropolitan areas, including approximately 60 area codes by the end of October 1998, giving us access to 75 percent of the U.S. population. We are able to offer long distance service by installing Point of Presence, or POPs, throughout the country. After the entire nation is covered, we will then move to international markets in 1999."
USA Talks.com's proprietary and patented technology allows telephone-to-telephone calls using simple, fast call placement. To use the service, callers will simply dial a local number and vocally state the number they wish to call. USA Talks.com's Voice Dialer will be used to identify the telephone numbers of the call and the Speaker Verification is used to verify the caller on the system. High-ratio Speech Compression is used to assure the quality of the call.
USA Talks.com Inc., with headquarters in San Diego, is engaged principally in the business of developing and marketing PhoneClub, a flat-rate-per-month, internet-based, long-distance phone service. PhoneClub provides small business and home offices with a low cost alternative to traditional cents-per-minute phone service.
CONTACT: USA Talks.com Inc.
Lesley R. Wilber, 619/546-0550
lesleyw@usatalks.com
or
Alex Ebel, 619/236-1332, ext. 276
Alex_Ebel@szmi.com |
