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Technology Stocks : Voice-on-the-net (VON), VoIP, Internet (IP) Telephony -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. De Paul who wrote (2932)	2/17/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Hello Kenneth, > Do your parents still have their POTS phone? Yep ... they used to have two lines - home and office - but got rid of the office line when they got the cable modem. > And who is their service provider? POTS = PacBell Cable = AT&T/Excite@Home > And why? So the "calls" that they are plying with for phone using Microsoft NetMeeting do not completely replace the POTS telephone ... and they are not real technical people. I don't believe that these products have yet replaced the POTS phone yet ... but simply provided another way to communicate with Internet connected friends. Even if they were to use DialPad ( dialpad.com ) for all outgoing calls, DialPad doesn't provide any incoming call support ... > Your report is very interesting and as we progress into Voice and > Video over data, I still wonder if folks will cut the cord. The main point that I was amazed by was that people in my family that I use as a "reference point" are now starting to play with voice and video over the net. To me, this is a big deal ... (As a follow on ... my sister and her husband got his brother (and family) to download NetMeeting ... his brother doesn't have any camera, but they were able to get a call going with voice and one-way video ... I'm impressed ...) Scott C. Lemon