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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (2590)	4/4/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: Mark S. Schroeder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7703

Hey Doc #1; Beam me up Scotty........ How did you get options? I guess we'll all be looking forward to a smashing news release at some point next week. The only thing I don't like is the gaps in the charts. Hey Juanita.....what does your charts say about the gaps? To another exciting week in play......WOW a real nice headfake and recovery....don't need to drop the ball before we get to the goal post or we wont score and we all know the extra point will make us winners. MSS

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (2590)	4/4/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: dwlima	Respond to of 7703

You know who you are: It was nice speaking with you last night. I feel more confident in my holdings and am going to,at a minimum, wait until after April to make any long-term decisions. To all that have contributed to this thread in a positive way, thanks and good luck. Mr. D, a very generous offer. It is nice to see people helping people Yours truly, dw in Lima, Peru PS. i have had a few people privately e-mail about my holdings---i have finally decided to share all. i bought a total of 90,000 and sold off 15k at an average price of $3.90 to recover my initial investment. my father and an ER buddy of mine (not Byron) has 20,000 shares now. they have also recommended this stock to their colleagues- and i have no idea of they have bought in. i know of no shorts and Let's Get Ready To Rumble this week.

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (2590)	4/4/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: sandstuff	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7703

Internet phone service heats up with AT&T entry By Randolph Court SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - AT&T launched a program this week designed to expand the reach of its own Internet telephone services by equipping local Internet providers so they can sell the service. The goal of the new service is to broaden AT&T's offerings in the Internet phone market that is beginning to nibble at the edges of its traditional telephone empire. Consumers are beginning to be lured away from traditional phone companies by a growing number of offers of long-distance service at below 10 cents a minute. Dubbed the AT&T Global Clearinghouse, the new AT&T service will install the hardware and software an Internet service provider needs to offer its own customers Internet protocol (IP) telephony, which breaks a caller's voice into digital packets to be sent over private IP networks and the Internet. Then it will provide the new IP telephony providers a connection with others networks, or the publicly switched telephone network, so that calls can be made outside the reach of the Internet service's own network, essentially creating a one-stop shop for local Internet providers to offer telephony. The thrust of the plan is partly to add value to AT&T's existing network of IP services. Last spring, AT&T started a separate Japanese company called AT&T Jens, with Fujitsu, Hitachi, international telecommunications company KDD, and more than 20 others. AT&T Jens launched AT&T ATPhone, an Internet telephony service in Japan. By pairing with other IP telephony service providers, AT&T gives its IP telephony customers more places they can call at the cheaper IP rates. The inverse is true as well-by joining the service, other providers offer their customers a better service. "We're partnering with ISPs to extend the reach of our network and theirs," said Simon Clayton-Mitchell, product marketing director for AT&T Online Services Asia/Pacific, during an interview on Tuesday at the Voice on the Net conference in San Jose, California. --- Once AT&T has brought a fledgling IP telephony service provider into the network and outfitted it with the right hardware and software, it handles the administrative duties of linking the new partner with all the others. This includes routing calls to destinations in each provider's region, and providing a settlement service so that they can determine what they owe each other for patching through each other's calls. When a customer on one of the partners' networks wants to make a call to somewhere on the traditional public-switch telephone network, AT&T will offer wholesale rates for time on its own network or resell minutes on other carriers. AT&T expects that segment of the telecommunications business to be an increasingly important one. "Eventually you are going to reach a point where people buy and sell bandwidth like on a commodities exchange," said Clayton-Mitchell. He said several ISPs and telecommunications companies in Asia have already signed on for the Global Clearinghouse. Though the service will be initially Asia-focused, the plan is to expand the network by adding more service providers around the globe. Probe Research, a telecommunications and data networking market research firm, forecasts the IP services industry will be worth US$6.3 billion in 2002. The AT&T Global Clearinghouse business plan looks quite similar to that of an upstart company called ITXC, founded by former AT&T WorldNet executive Tom Evslin. --- ITXC has been shooting it out on the IP telephony frontier for about a year, signing up service providers in a number of foreign markets to be part of a similar IP telephony network it manages. Its WWeXchange, which is set to launch in the next few weeks, requires service providers to use gateways manufactured by VocalTech. Partners in the AT&T Global Clearinghouse, meanwhile, will be using gateways made by Clarent. Because standards for IP telephony have not yet been set, the gateways made by different manufacturers cannot talk to each other. That means that the AT&T and ITXC networks will not be able to connect directly. For now, the competition is to create the bigger network, both to decrease the reliance on the more expensive connection via a traditional telephone network and to press a de facto standard into being. Still, ITXC vice president Mary Evslin welcomed AT&T into the neighborhood. "I hope we can do business with them-terminate calls on their gateways and vice versa," she said. Such connections, however, will have to take place with the public network acting as an intermediary. AT&T's Clayton-Mitchell said: "We are willing to partner where necessary, especially where partners might bring us relationships we don't currently have. But as far as specifics, we're not speaking to that at this time." The giant telcos are simply not giving in to the industry hype that might lead one to believe that upstart companies will soon dominate the emerging IP telephony market. In fact, Clayton-Mitchell said: "AT&T is positioning itself to be a clear winner in the IP world." (Reuters/Wired)