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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (1884)	8/12/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 12823

Mike, here is an article about Sprint trialing IP-Telephony. They were way ahead of everyone with fiber optic backbones,which they had problems with,now way ahead with IP-Telephony. It does not seem that they know how to provision for billing services yet,though. Sprint to offer international voice-over-IP trial By Elinor Mills InfoWorld Electric Posted at 5:04 PM PT, Aug 12, 1998 Sprint this week will begin a U.S. market trial of a service that allows customers to make international phone calls over Sprint's IP-based backbone at cheaper rates than traditional telephone calls, the company said Wednesday. The service, dubbed Sprint Callternatives, will be offered to customers in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle for a limited time. Trial customers will be able to make calls throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as to India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico City, Sprint said in a statement. It will cost carriers less to provide calls placed over an IP network than calls placed over regular phone networks, and the cost differential is greater for international calls, Sprint said. The company did not say how much cheaper the calls under its new service would be. Sprint will prebill the credit cards of customers of the new trial service in increments of $10 and $25. To use the service, customers dial a local number to reach the Sprint IP network and complete calls by entering a personal identification number and the number they are calling. Gateways link the Sprint IP network and local phone networks at either end of the call. "The market trial will test many issues, including technology, market acceptance, and price. Before we leap into offering an IP-based telephony service, we want to make sure it is as reliable, as robust and as easy to use as possible," said Terri Morrow, vice president of emerging technologies in Sprint's Consumer Services Group, in a statement. "The quality of voice over IP has improved to the point where we feel comfortable offering it to our customers.'' In addition to evaluating the possibility of offering voice-over-IP service commercially, Sprint is looking into providing fax and messaging over its IP network, the company said. Sprint Corp., in Kansas City, Mo., can be reached at (816) 624-6000 or sprint.com. Hiram

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (1884)	8/12/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: Ray Jensen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Mike, I have not read about the Egerton acquisition, but CHNL is mainly a manufacturer of injection molded polyethylene telecom outside plant enclosures, primarily for below ground distribution plant applications. They are a big seller to the cable industry, but also sell a lot of products to ILECs. There's plenty of competition in nearly all of their product lines, but their products are well regarded by most. I am assuming Egerton involves fiber splice cases and heat shrink, but there are plenty of other competitors in that area as well, especially Raychem.