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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (6393)	2/11/2000 1:32:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Dialup intenet access for $50/ month by Deutche Telecom! What a deal!<g> From the San Jose Mercury: Deutsche Telekom unveils flat rate phone billing for Internet access FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Under pressure from competitors, Deutsche Telekom AG unveiled Friday a flat-rate telephone fee for Internet access -- a departure from the current system of billing phone calls by the minute. Chief executive Ron Sommer said the new offer will allow customers of its T-Online Internet service to surf the Web as much as they want for a lump sum of under $50 a month. The new flat rate should go into effect before summer, he said. The offer is part of an Internet offensive launched by Deutsche Telekom. Deutsche Telekom's offer comes a day after AOL Europe head Andreas Schmidt took a shot at the company, the largest telecommunications provider in Europe, for largely dictating the per-minute billing system. He said Thursday that Germany needed flat rate phone billing because it would encourage more people to surf the Web. Schmidt also said Germany's economy would grow by 0.5 percent and that nearly 400,000 new Internet-related jobs would be created if telephone rates were cut. T-Online has more than 4 million Internet customers, while AOL Europe has 1.5 million clients in Germany.