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To: BuzzVA who wrote (36436)	7/20/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Buzz, You are quite welcome, and I thank you for the acknowledgement. I think that there is a strong message underneath that PR. That is, there is a highly significant level of urgency and importance associated with peering and strategic partnering in this new field. Whereas the Switched GSTN model, almost by definition, lends itself to open entry due to the established accounting and settlements standards which exist (despite their onerous effects), there are no such established avenues or instruments of commerce open to new entrants in the International VoIP marketplace at this time, save the use of clearinghouses (settlement firms), which, all too often, have their own restrictions. While it would be nice to do it yourself, roll your own, so to speak, and own all of the capital equipment on both sides of the pond, there can be no escaping the need for dependencies on other carriers' traffic distribution needs, _and_, very significantly, other equipment manufacturers' products. This is where, IMO, the bifurcated mission of this company comes back to bite it in the rear end. For, as it stands now, you cannot easily partner with carriers whose equipment is not compatible with your own. There needs to be some even-handed compromise along the way, and a willingness to use other people's gateways and routers at times. The alternative to this, of course, is isolationism from 99.9xy% of the world's future VoIP traffic. And the implications of this bring us back to the discussion we had upstream, a bit, concerning the need to be selective and to develop trusted relationships among the world's VoIP Operators. Crucial. FWIW, Frank C.

To: BuzzVA who wrote (36436)	7/20/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: STK1	Respond to of 41046

BuZZ and All: What you have been seeing in The pacific Rim and the lower islands via cable has been the result of the deregulation of the telcom industry there 1 or 2 years ago.From the beginning The dereg brought more then one way to place calls and provided rates that would never go up again.This very same thing is about to happen in Brazil And 5 or so Latin countries as the goverments get out of managing the countries telcom markets.The Next thing I hope we hear and i believe we have already been primed is the IDM and Bosinia Deals are only a very small part of what IDM and FTEL is going to do in the african region and the South American Market encompassing The caribean and the Eastern cities of South america through Lower Argentina. This is of course conjecture and not as of yet fact,But look very closly at What IDM and FTEL already has to offer and start connecting the dots,Its amazing to see how broad spread IDM is already and from what i hear they really want to grow into not just a transporter but also be involved in the provider side as well.The market in SA is frontier and a virtual Untapped market for Deregulation and Transporters.

To: BuzzVA who wrote (36436)	7/20/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: KittyCat	Respond to of 41046

WorldCom's Pan-European Network Opens for Business By Kristi Essick PARIS - WorldCom today launched its much-hyped pan-European network, which will link companies in business centers around Europe with their North American counterparts via a gigantic fiber loop. WorldCom, which began building the European fiber-optic network about four years ago, today launched services on the network for the first time. The 2,000-mile long network links together existing WorldCom local networks in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Frankfurt, WorldCom said in a statement. The pan-European network will also connect, via the Gemini transatlantic undersea cable, to WorldCom's local and long-distance networks in the U.S., which currently serve 27,000 office buildings. The European leg of the network will connect about 4,000 office buildings in the cities it ties together. WorldCom plans to offer high-bandwidth, value-added voice, data and Internet services to corporate customers using the new network. Some of the services the company plans to offer include managed ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) services, video conferencing and private circuits, according to the statement. WorldCom is not the only telco eager to build up its own network in the recently deregulated European market. Competitors such as Energis and Colt Telecom Group are also racing to dig up the streets and lay fiber. WorldCom, like the other new entrants, wants to bypass incumbent operators by building its own local-loop networks, thereby exempting itself from paying expensive interconnect charges at a local level. In turn, WorldCom plans to pass on these cost savings to users, the company said. Of course, with networks only in certain places, WorldCom still has to pay incumbents to carry traffic where their networks don't reach. WorldCom's network could save a company a fair amount of money, if, for example, it wants to connect headquarters in London to a sister office in New York. But prices could rise if a company wants to connect offices that aren't in cities on WorldCom's new network loop, for example, two sites in the south of France to a head office in London, because WorldCom will have to pay interconnect fees in France. However, WorldCom is quickly adding new local networks and will add other cities to the pan-European network at a later date, the company has said. The telco currently is developing city-wide networks in Hamburg, Dsseldorf, Rotterdam, Dublin and Zurich, but it has not yet announced plans to connect these cities to the pan-European network. When a call passes solely over WorldCom's European network, the company will charge a flat rate for most services, regardless of the distance traveled, the company said. A call from Frankfurt to London on a private circuit will cost the same as a call from London to Amsterdam, WorldCom said. This is because the company will be able to bypass "the arcane and arbitrary traditional methods of settling international telecoms pricing," according to the statement. WorldCom's new pan-European network is based on fiber-optic, SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) loops that can support up to 40G bits of data or voice per second, the company said. In addition, the network will use wave division multiplexing and optical amplifiers to increase capacity in the future, WorldCom said. WorldCom detailed plans for its pan-European network in March of 1997 and said it would spend $200 million rolling out the project. Kristi Essick writes for the IDG News Service in Paris. idg.net