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To: stan hope who wrote (20739)	7/19/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Kenneth R. Moss	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22810

Stan, You are fighting a lost cause :-) Let's just wait and let nature take it's course and we will come out on top !!! Regards, Ken

To: stan hope who wrote (20739)	7/19/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22810

And seriously, I will not do your due diligence for you. LOL. Let's run some numbers on what a hypothetical IPVC deal might mean to NPEC. Flat25. $25/month per phone. Let's go absolutely insane and say NPEC signs up 100,000 customers who stick around for an entire year. That's $25/month x 100k users x 12 months/user = $30M in total revenue. Long distance is an extremely competitive business, but let's be generous and say IPVC hits a margin of 20%. That's 6M in earnings. Of that, NPEC gets some sort of commission for bringing in the customers, let's say a generous 20%. That is $1.2M in revenue for NPEC. With optimistic margins of 50%, that leaves earnings of $600k. Spread over, what, 60M shares, that gives an EPS of $0.01/share. Yeah, one cent per share to NPEC, and that is completely ignoring the downward pressure on LD pricing and margins.