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Microcap & Penny Stocks : DGIV -- Good Prospects? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Rogers who wrote (110)	3/16/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: DavidCG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7703

I'm talking specifically about one product of theirs called NetCall. I'll attempt to explain it in simple english so no one gets lost that reads this board. Ok, we know the internet is worldwide...computers linked to other computers. And it costs us nothing to link up to a Japan website or a French web site via our computer through the internet. These web sites are on servers..or hardware that stores this info. So, lets say an internet telephony company wants to provide a way of placing calls cheaply from Los Angeles to Tokyo and vice versa. DGIV would place a server in Tokyo and a server in Los Angeles. You would make a local call via your telephone to this server in Los Angeles (if you lived in LA), enter your personal pin number (so it bills your account), and dial the tokyo phone number. The server based in LA would connect for free to the server in Tokyo and would place your phone call. These servers would compress your voice and decompress it as it goes to the person you talk to in Tokyo. Internet telephony companies like DGIV should make a killing because the only expenses they really incur is creating/setting up these servers in cities throughout the world. The "wires" that connect the servers are already provided for free from the internet infrastructure already in place. One disadvantage to this: voice quality will probably not equal a fiber optic line. Are you willing to sacrifice 1/5 of the price of a international call for non fiber-optic quality? I would. To pay .25 a minute vs $1.90 a minute would be huge savings. I believe DGIV is linking up with local telephone companies throughout the world so that these local companies can compete with their long distance rivals. See the potential for internet telephony? Here is the link for how DGIV says it works (graphics too): digitcom.com You can see why internet telephony is going to be huge in the coming years. I expect consolidation of the internet telephony companies in a few years as well...once they are well established. -DavidCG