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To: Glenn McDougall who wrote (4994)	6/5/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Peppe	Respond to of 18016

Glenn, I don't think it would be fair to Bucky89 not to include his response to Pat's excellent questions: www4.techstocks.com Cheers, Peppe

To: Glenn McDougall who wrote (4994)	6/6/1998 2:20:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

Surprise announcement from Ireland: <<< FRIDAY JUNE 5 1998ÿÿTelecomsÿ IRELAND: Wave of interest likely in telecoms By John Murray Brown in Dublin Ireland's decision last month to open its telecommunications market to full competition from December, a year earlier than planned, could tempt a wave of new international companies, according to British Telecom's Irish operation, which yesterday unveiled details of a Iœ80m ($113m) joint venture. George McGrath, chief executive of BT's 50:50 joint venture with Electricity Supply Board (ESB), the Irish Republic's state owned power utility, said it was revising its own plans in the light of the surprise announcement that restrictions on public switched voice services would be lifted by the end of the year. Ireland made its decision after complaints about pricing policies by Karel Van Miert, the EU competition commissioner. Telecom Eireann (TE), the state majority-owned operator, accounts for 90 per cent of the Irish telecommunications market. Esat Telecom, a privately owned company listed on Nasdaq in the US, has a fixed line business and also competes with TE in the mobile market. The change will mean BT will be free to serve residential customers using its planned fibre optic network, making use of ESB's microwave system to replace lines now leased from TE.>>>>

To: Glenn McDougall who wrote (4994)	6/6/1998 2:29:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

More from FT. <<< FRIDAY JUNE 5 1998ÿÿComputingÿ INTERNET: Company use to surge By Paul Taylor in London Use of the internet and internet technologies by European businesses is set to surge over the next few years as companies adopt internet protocol (IP) services and applications for electronic commerce and other business activities, says a report published by Schema, the London-based IT consultancy. "The dramatic growth of the internet represents the fastest ever take-up of new technology," said Robin Duke-Woolley, the report's author. Some 2.6m companies - or roughly a third of the total in Europe - are using IP services on the internet, in their corporate intranets or in extended extranets, according to the report. This usage is spread over 4.1m business sites or about a quarter of the total, but within five years this usage will have more than doubled with 10.6m corporate sites using internet technologies for a wide range of business applications. The main corporate use of IP services is for messaging, web surfing and information retrieval, but within three years 46 per cent of companies will be using IP services for e-commerce, says the report which is based on a pan-European survey of more than 500 companies. "The rapid growth in the use of IP services will also see a substantial change in the mix of real time and non-real time [or off-line] applications," said the report. By 2003, the report suggests, 3m companies will be engaged in e-commerce, up from around 250,000 today, and electronic trading will account for almost a quarter of their revenues. In addition, almost 40 per cent of companies will be using internet technologies for transaction-orientated process applications, 21 per cent for IP telephony and 16 per cent real time video. This surge in the corporate use of internet technologies will also be reflected in the traffic on company networks, and the internet. Corporate network data traffic is expected to be five times greater than voice traffic in five years, and IP traffic will represent 75 per cent of this. Business user on-line traffic on the public switched telephone networks, which totals around 51bn minutes a year, will jump to 298bn minutes a year by 2003, while IP traffic on leased lines will grow by 2500 per cent. Meanwhile, Schema predicts that revenues from IP telephony on managed IP networks for international calls will grow to about $2.5bn as companies seize the opportunity to cut their telecoms costs using intranet telephony. At the same time Schema predicts that residential internet subscriptions will grow from 6.3m to 30m by 2003, with the fastest percentage growth coming in Spain, Italy and France. In part this reflects the rapid development of local language web sites. "By the turn of the century growth rates in Europe will be faster than those in the US," says Mr Duke-Woolley. 'Communications in the Internet Era: The Market for IP-based Services in Europe'. Available from Schema, +44 (0)171 497 0708>>>>