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Technology Stocks : Net2Phone Inc-(NTOP) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawaii60 who wrote (433)	8/6/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Mike Hermann	Respond to of 1556

that's ruuuuuummmmmble!

To: Hawaii60 who wrote (433)	8/8/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1556

SmartMoney mention ... Internet Telephony Service Providers IDT Services Available: Phone-to-Phone and PC-to-Phone If you've ever used a calling card, then you're ready for Net2Phone Direct, IDT's phone-to-phone service. Simply dial your personal Net2Phone Direct card and pin number, area code and number, and you've made an Internet call. We tested the service on local chats in Manhattan and on long distance calls to North Carolina, California, Italy and London. The first few seconds sounded slightly fuzzy -- think of a tape player with not-quite-new batteries. But then our calls cleared, and it was impossible to tell the difference from a traditional call. Rates for domestic calls are five cents a minute from 62 cities where IDT has its own gateways -- from New York to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Seattle, Atlanta and Hackensack, N.J., where the company is headquartered. Domestic calls outside those cities cost 7.9 cents a minute. Overseas rates are posted on the firm's Web site. Though rates are low, Net2Phone does round calls to the next minute. (That means if you talk for 80 seconds, you pay for two minutes of call time.) And you?ll also pay a 99-cent monthly fee for the phone-to-phone service. If you want to make PC-to-phone calls, you can download Net2Phone 9.0 off IDT's site for free. Domestic calls are a low 4.9 cents a minute and there's no monthly minimum for PC-to-phone service, but calls are rounded to the minute. Overseas rates are posted online and tend to be low. All overseas calls back to the U.S. are a flat 10 cents a minute. An IDT official called us via his PC and the sound was remarkably clear. Of course, if you use a standard modem, you may have some delay, which is true for most PC-to-phone and PC-to-PC calls. If you've got Netscape, expect to hear more about Net2Phone 9.0. IDT just signed a deal to include access to its PC-to-phone service on the Internet browser's toolbar. That should help boost IDT's one-million customer base. Net2Phone isn't available for calls on a Macintosh. smartmoney.com Thanks to ocayusa on the Raging Bull thread.