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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1469)	10/8/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) of 3178

Speaking of eliminating local-access-charges, I dig the last couple of statements here by Armstrong. ggg AT&T's Armstrong: The future is IP By Sandra Gittlen Network World Fusion, 10/8/98 AT&T CEO C. Michael Armstrong announced the arrival of IP at his Fall Internet World '98 today in much the same way Bill Gates announced the arrival of the Internet - as if it were the newest thing around. "There's a new standard and it's IP," Armstrong declared. He told attendees of his keynote that AT&T has a firm commitment to IP telephony and has several deals in the works to back it up. These deals, along with the carrier's recent $48 acquisition of cable giant Tele-Communications, Inc., will offer AT&T a foothold in the IP market. "It's IP that's central to our mission and our future," Armstrong said. "We will focus our research and development around IP telephony systems." Armstrong announced AT&T's Global Clearinghouse and labeled it "the carrier's carrier." The company claims the new service will help Internet service providers and telecommunications authorities develop and operate IP telephony services around the world. "We'll handle routing agreements, payment and billing," he said. Having a third-party handle IP telephony services for Internet service providers will lower costs for customers, he said. "ISPs will stop wasting time negotiating agreements." Armstrong also announced two voice over IP virtual private network trials the company is conducting internally and with a large financial institution. Finally, he unveiled the AT&T Center for Internet Research, which the company created with the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. The center will also develop real-time voice over IP applications. Armstrong took the opportunity to jab at local monopolies, saying that the Telecommunications Reform Act has failed to open up Bell markets to competition. "We've choked this industry and stifled it from going forward," he said. He called for the elimination local access charges, which he said constitute a tax. "This tax costs users $10 billion more than it should," he said.

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