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

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (166)	11/20/1997 11:24:00 AM
From: crs	Respond to of 3178

Quality is still a bit slim on voip so you will need a traditionial carrier to offer this system as a side benifit if you can find a benifit in VOIP. Frankly I do not care if I spent 10c or 20c on a phone call. It is the difference of 20 bucks on my phone bill then I do not care. If a company spends several hundred thousand on phone calls a month well then more than likely they do not care because they are coke or pepsi and a few hundred grand is nothing. Better stick with the quality. This sounds like a contradiction with my earlier posts, but I agree with the 2 or 3 latter posts, however I did not understand the lingo that much.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (166)	11/20/1997 11:51:00 AM
From: Ron Kory	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Frank, I by no means disavow the potential of voice over IP in the corporate market. I just think that the low hanging fruit is fax and store and forward voice. Fax over IP will not change anyone's habits apropop sending a fax and will save corporations tons of money. The average Fortune 1000 company spends $15 million per year in fax. Using a service like UUFAX will probably save a corporation 50-70% off their fax bill. Store and forward voice is a market that will develop quickly, too. Imagine a sales manager for an international company able to address all the sales people around the world by "broadcasting" a message over IP...the applications are endless and can be as trite as leaving a message when you will be home for dinner. You mentioned that domestic savings are not so great when using voice over IP in this country. The rates in our country are lower than anywhere else. In Europe, for example, the domestic long distance phone rates are significantly higher than here. It is cheaper, for example, to call New York from Berlin than Bonn from Berlin. ron