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To: snake who wrote (29114)	3/1/1998 10:44:00 PM
From: stock4U	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

Talk Is Cheap On The Net By Margie Semilof Los Angeles 5:10 p.m. EST Fri., Feb. 27, 1998 .............. Two discount carriers this week announced initiatives in IP telephony that give some users a low cost alternative to the traditional long distance networks. IDT Corp. Hackensack, N.J., said it will drop its Internet calling rates to .05 cents per minute on domestic calls for customers using Net2Phone Direct, the company's phone-to-phone Internet service. Separately, Justice Internet Corp. a Los Angeles carrier, said it will begin offering Internet calling service to Korea, Japan and Taiwan on April 1. Both companies have a shared heritage as call-back carriers, which let customers who want to call a destination to first route that call through one of the carrier's servers. The call back carrier charges a lower rate to complete the call than if the caller dialed the destination directly. For example, if a customer in Brazil wants to call Switzerland it might cost $5 dollars a minute. By dialing the call-back server the call from Brazil is reoriginated at that server. The call is completed to Switzerland at only .26 cents per minute, company officials said. "Everyone is looking for less expensive ways to make international calls, particularly since the financial crisis in Asia," said Marc Haimsohn, international sales manager at Justice. Justice does not yet have a domestic IP service. Haimsohn said the carrier's customers are mostly embassies, large export companies, banks and hotels. To use the service, customers need a PC, a Nortel Micom Phone/Fax IP Gateway, and at least 64 kbps of access service.