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To: Ben Nildus who wrote (1332)	4/14/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Ben Nildus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2349

FYI, Net Telephony Forces Deutsche Telekom Overseas (04/14/98; 5:35 p.m. ET) techweb.com Deutsche Telekom launched a preemptive strike against Internet telephony operators threatening its position in the domestic calling market last week, launching a pilot of its T-Netcall service in the United States. . . . But Deutsche Telekom's aggressive announcements are prompting traditional carriers into thinking about Internet telephony, said Tom Evslin, founder and CEO of ITXC, in North Brunswick, N.J. The market realized Deutsche Telekom was taking Internet telephony seriously when it bought a 21 percent stake in Vocaltec, the Israeli developer of the original IP telephony gateway technology that now supplies Deutsche Telekom's infrastructure, Evslin said. Deutsche Telekom "has really affected its fellow giant PTTs [Postal, Telegraph & Telephone]," Evslin said. Most traditional telecom carriers are still adopting a defensive stance against Internet telephony, said Evslin, but not Deutsche Telekom. "They've made a decision that they will lead the market," he said.