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To: Stephen P. who wrote (117)	3/16/1998 8:12:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7703

Stephen, If and when the babay bells and their partners see it being done can they not also do it with a new partner owned by them and a crony in the entry country?. The cost of entry is low as you say $10K and it can make $500K, get ready for the rush. The problem is the low cost and ease of entry. It breeds competition. I can see a coop amongs ISPs to do this very well. they all have the phone lines and the high speed pipes, they just need to kick an internet person off just wehn they need to make a local call frpm a far data stream. So they will get outgoing call use of their lines and a share of the revenue. Many of the busy flat rate ISPs have a kick off priority list now, I am sure many have been kicked off at busy times. If we all go to a digital dial tone we will just see a slightly slower data rate when they put an analog call through, and they would not need to kick you off(until even the analogs suffered,,of course) So what is to stop ISP-NET from starting up as a long distance call provider and charging a flat rate of 10 cents per minute with 5 cents to each end. It sure beats $19.95/month unlimited access rates. At $3 per hour for a phone line at both ends it would also depend on quality issues. Those who demand quality would go to ATT and us paupers would use the ship to shore radio....over Bill

To: Stephen P. who wrote (117)	3/16/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: Rick	Respond to of 7703

Stephen - I agree totally...(also an owner of FTEL) - but this one has a jump on marketing internationally - over a lot of others...Each of these companies -- FTEL, DGIV & LKON is pursuing a different strategy & they are probably good ones for each of the companies. FTEL is big into establishing its own big network via FNET nodes & WCOM co-lo. /poss future massive revenues via "owning" it's own network...(with short-term investor impatience to some extent..) LKON has a high capacity solution - & is thus appealing to AT&T (& may be the one that AT&T will be utilizing for it's VoIP..(seems more likely each day as there is something going on behind the scenes it seems - by the look of it..)) & DGIV -- has a big jump on all via an intl push by partering with baby bells/local telcos & has had proven success in marketing it's product solution as "first to market" That is my take on what is happening here... internationally