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Nov 7 11:47 AM EST

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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (22552)	10/7/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) of 45548

John, The way I interpret the practical side of VOIP is such: AT&T has much fast profit rate of growth in it's internet products than its voice products. It's tremendously obvious to them and the rest of the telecom companies that the profits are in providing internet services. Businesses are clamoring for this incessantly. Anyways, once the data network is built (internet), placing the voice part over it is icing on the cake. Voice is just a very small slice of the packets (information) that travel the internet. It could almost be given away for free, as a lead product for internet services. >>giving up bandwidth to voice is counterproductive to increasing their bottom line<< I'm a little confused by your question, but if one is saying to build an internet for the sake of having a differnt voice network, then yes, complete waste of bandwidth. But internets are built for massive transfer of data. I myself average at least a couple of gigabytes of data every day over the internet. Voice packets over that are probably less than 1% of my data transmissions.

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