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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian Fuller who wrote (25605)	11/14/1997 3:29:00 PM
From: Alan Edgett	Respond to of 33268

"Makes me wonder if these guys still don't understand who their market is." Probably the best question EVER asked on this thread. Good job! Edge

To: Brian Fuller who wrote (25605)	11/14/1997 3:39:00 PM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

I think you may have skewed the idea to fit your post. If you were to ask 100 remote users if they'd like the ability to be able to originate & receive phone calls without breaking their data connection and they understood how the system worked I'd have to say that 90% may even be a low number. This ain't peanut butter in a new jar, it's something most don't even know exists yet. Inacom & Data General will see to it that a lot of people are aware of what they can now get for about the same price as a data-only system.

To: Brian Fuller who wrote (25605)	11/15/1997 1:31:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33268

I would venture to say the lion's share of laptop users are not technical types but rather business users. I would think the average spreadsheet toting sales person would love to have a cellular modem complete with voice capability. Moreover, the volume of non-realtime voice traffic (after the tone...) is certainly an application screaming for IP telephony. Voice can be created locally and transmitted over IP to be reconstructed by the voicemail system. Realtime conversation is at least possible, too. I assume they are working on new protocols for IP telephony which wring out extra speed using ultra-slack data integrity -- who give's a rat's about loosing a voice packet or two. Why do we need proprietary systems if they get There from Here with improvements to IP? BTW, that's not a rhetorical question.