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Technology Stocks : IDT *(idtc) following this new issue?* -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andrew H who wrote (9996)	6/25/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: fred whitridge	Respond to of 30916

Don't get carried away with satellite: >>If they hook up with a satellite wirless ISP provider they will be set. << Actually, AOL's recent hookup with Hughes is a bit contradictory to VOIP. Sat links introduce an unacceptable amount of "latency" into real time phone conversations. Coupled with the latency introduced by the voice coder/decoder, the echo canceller, and windows itself, a sat link VOIP call would be a really yucky half duplex "push the button to talk" kind of experience.