Michael, here's a follow up to your post.
To: rocketeer1 (22103 )
From: macker
Monday, Aug 17 1998 7:47PM ET
Reply # of 22121
this is in response to jakarta being a poor choice by jimmy chin for ip service, it is a post
taken from nmss thread, also notice that the items listed are names we are familiar with
and i for one expect contracts with soon. bird brain posted numbers earlier which again
seem to be wrong, gee what a surprise. numbers 14 and 16 are almost certainly to be
contracted soon if not already, numbers 2,3,7,10, 12,18 are good candidates as south
america is a target yet to be announced but all would stand to reason. as for kobe
japan, if we got tokyo why not kobe? argentina has been rumored for a long time now.
as for moscow, if we are in mordovia, i hardly think that it wasnt approved by moscow
first, it would be a natural fit. if the population centers were extended farther, you would
see more eastern block countries and west europe as well. i think it is a safe bet that
jimmy wont stand on his laurels and will be pursued rather than jimmy pursuing them
they will be looking at dgiv. germany and austrailia are not exactly deserted ghost towns
either. the olympics in sydney were just put there by dart throwing at a globe.
The World's 20 Largest Metropolitan Areas (NMSS & DGIV) huthut98
Aug 17 1998
10:51AM EDT
NMSS equipment will follow DGIV deployments in numerous cities??
acu.edu
The World's 20 Largest Metropolitan Areas
Rank City & Country Population
1 Tokyo-Yokomama, Japan.....28,447,000 <-- DGIV
2 Mexico City, Mexico.......23,913,000
3 Sao Paulo, Brazil.........21,539,000
4 Seoul, South Korea........19,065,000 <-- DGIV
5 New York City, U.S.A......16,332,000
6 Bombay, India.............15,138,000
7 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto,Japan....14,060,000
8 Shanghai, China...........13,584,000
9 Calcutta, India...........12,885,000
10 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....12,788,000
11 Los Angeles CA............12,410,000 <-- DGIV
12 Buenos Aires, Argentina...12,232,000
13 Tehran, Iran..............11,681,000
14 Manila, Philippines.......11,342,000
15 Beijing, China............11,299,000
16 Cairo, Egypt..............11,155,000
17 Jakarta, Indonesia........11,151,000 <-- DGIV
18 Moscow, Russia............10,769,000
19 Lagos, Nigeria............10,287,000
20 Delhi, India..............10,105,000
Notes:
1.This information is a combined ranking taking from U.S. and U.N. sources and using
the higher estimate from each source. The U.S. estimates on Chinese cities seems low.
2.The U.S. Census Bureau estimates for the 100 largest cities in 1995 are found in the
Information Please Almanac for 1997. The U.N. estimates for the 15 largest cities in
1996 are found in the 1998 World Almanac.
3.Cities are defined here, not according to political units, but as contiguous areas of
population of at least 5,000 people per square mile.
4.The next three cities in order are Karachi, Pakistan; London, UK; and Paris, France,
all with about 9 million.
5.Of these 20 cities, 11 are in Asia, 3 in North America, 3 in South America, 2 in
Africa, and 1 in Europe.
-- DGIV recent news-released rollouts ---
Aug 17, 1998:
Long distance telephone service using Digitcom's Internet Protocol (IP) network is
slated for launch under the name ''DigitcomNet'' in Jakarta, Bandung, Medan,
Surabaya, and Denpasar.
''This initial five-city installation will give the Digitcom Network access to each of
Indonesia's main regional centers for the delivery of IP-Telephone services between
Indonesia and other
points on the Pacific Rim, and to customers in North America,'' said Digitcom CEO
Jimmy Chin. ''Digitcom's acquisition of PT Primedia ArmoEkadata has provided the
licensing framework for our Internet Protocol telecom network within Indonesia. The
participation of StarPage will considerably accelerate our
deployment and marketing of service to customers.'
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Aug 8, 1998
The company has scheduled installation of its "IntraVoice" voice-over-IP (VoIP)
gateways in Korea [Seoul], Japan [Tokyo], Taiwan, Indonesia[Jakarta], and Australia
[Sydney], with U.S. termination in Los Angeles. Testing of the leased-line VoIP
network will occur from late August through September *WITH COMMERCIAL
SERVICE SLATED TO LAUNCH IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER.*
macker
ps. R1 you are right all installation products are y2k prepared, also, the accounting
package that dgiv started using is y2k compatible as well, this is one of the reasons for
the delay in the sb10 is the software switch over, makes more sense to do it now than
later when the volume of data will be considerably higher. |
