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To: Don Johnstone who wrote (271)	7/9/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Marc	Respond to of 1622

happy to see you are all still following IIA. Wonder when they will release earning for 2Q, i hope we will have a little bit more details (a real Balance Sheet and Statement of Operations) then the last time. I hope it won't take 2 month to compute the numbers.

To: Don Johnstone who wrote (271)	7/10/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: Ian deSouza	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1622

I agree with what you are saying if Sprint customers wish to obtain ION, which will involve a high speed (expensive) line to the house. But from what I've read, Sprint will offer "scalable" services which in my opinion might include ICM with the current analog lines. These are just some thoughts on where ICM will fit in the next five to ten years, where the vast majority of consumers will still be using existing POTS (plain old telephone) lines, with one channel per telephone number. My other comment is that even if high bandwidth lines come into the home, there may still be a need for ICM. I had an ISDN line installed into my home. I got two numbers with it. I could "dial out" on one number and talk on the other number (64K on each virtual line). But there's still the possibility that of those two virtual lines, a consumer might wish to use both lines for voice communication, and on occasion, use one for the internet. If someone were to call in on that line, ICM could still notify the user of the call, instead of a busy signal being sent back to the caller. Remember that ION as announced (as well as others) will in theory roll out in late 99. There's still time for IIA to make money on even the high end consumer market now, even though I think that ICM will still be there and might possibly be predominant when high speed access is available.