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

To: elk who wrote (330)	3/24/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Well - it really wasn't the first interoperability agreement.. Last month - Motorola and Inter-Tel signed a MoU which will ensure that the gateways which both companies develop will have the ablity to interoperate with each other. Intertel is at -- inter-tel.com But I guess it will probably be the first "working" one.. Everybody and their mother seems to be getting into this business.. I like OZemail a lot out of all of em - since they can probably make more money on the calls over their network (initially) since anything less than 4 bucks a minute is a bargain in Australia.. (& may I add -- all their web site stuff is pretty slick... :-) I still think that the quality of a company's web site tells you a bit about how they view quality in general..(& how much they really know about the importance of having a good one - and what actually constitutes "good"..) Luckily - I dumped 95% of my FTEL around 4.5ish a few weeks ago for a 1.5-2 point gain over 8 months -- whoopie...(learned my lesson about putting in stop losses after big vol days on first drop after 450% gains) (those darn little animated colored bullet balls on their home page made me do it - ha ha -- when they get rid of those - they might stand a snowball's chance...) (in addition to the impatience that people would probably show for immed. revenues or more press releases.., the fact that I never received an invitation to the shareholders meeting from the company (telling me how screwed up their records must be..) Sparrow leaving...Frank selling his shares..& a few other tidbits...all adding up to problems... Today's redundent news release was the straw that broke the camels's back & folks not admitting to reality on the thread (that shares had indeed been sold etc.) Good tech - but they need to work on the marketing.. & alliances etc. I still don't believe that they have developed a simple advertising banner (much less animated) to conduct strategic marketing with around the Net (such as having one at "meta-ISP" review type sites.. or other sites that ISP's (or tgt. customers) typically frequent en masse)... gee - you'd think that they'd understand a bit more about the web...being in California - ha ha Frank is too focused on "making it" alone I think..He needs to broaden his perspective.