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Microcap & Penny Stocks : DIGITCOM (DGIV-OTC-bb)Information Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greg wave who wrote (270)	8/8/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 530

The short answer is that they plan to do all of the above: voice-mail, fax, voice, video, and multimedia, all over IP networks, using leased lines, intranets, and public access lines. That is a lot to swallow all at once, so they are starting with the lowest apples on the tree, which is international VoIP traffic. As far as quality, there is some degradation but you have to compare that with the cost. International calls are very costly, so callers have more of an incentive to accept a slight degradation in quality for a large drop in cost. To minimize the problems here, Digitcom is using the latest in state-of-the-art, NMSS's gateways that support open standards, as stated in their news release. They also use up to 43:1 voice compression to allow real-time transmission of substantial amounts of digitized voice data. What Digitcom is doing mirrors what the big telcos are not doing, and vice versa, to avoid direct competition. Digitcom is not entering the U.S market directly, as the competition is intense and the big telcos have too much of an advantage. They are also not in competition with those that are selling equipment. What they are doing, instead, is entering into partnerships with regional telcos in overseas markets, and with equipment suppliers such as NMSS and NORTEL. The money in the early part of this race is in international cheap minutes. That is what Digitcom is exploiting. As revenues begin to flow, they plan to develop the rest. If and when they get large enough to be a significant factor, I expect there will be a lot of interest in them as a takeover target, but that is just a guess.

To: greg wave who wrote (270)	8/9/1998 8:45:00 AM
From: LAWRENCE C.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 530

Most Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) long distance calls do not go over the internet but rather over private lines such as AT&T's, DGIV's, Quest, Sprint, etc. Since digital data can be sent over optical lines it can travel at the speed of light over optical lines rather than at the speed of sound over analog lines. There is some degradation over distance and whenever you do switching. So when sending over private lines the latency (delay) can be controlled to minimize quality degradation. The compression ratio of 43:1 means that you can send up to 43 calls on one line using Internet Protocol as opposed to 1 call per line for voice only. So the IP carriers have much greater capacity per line. Lucky Lawrence