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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1467)	10/8/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3178

Stephen, the IDT-Frontier story made for a very interesting read. I have some comments and a question for you and the thread: What kind of service classification does IDTC fall into, once the company makes the claim to be able to: offer broader band IP telephony, national long distance and 10xxx services, reduce 800-origination costs, and provide originating and terminating carrier traffic in all major cities. In other words, does this take the company out of the protected realm of being an IP Telephony Carrier or ITSP due to its heavy dependency on PSTN constructs such as SS7 and AIN, which makes the 1+ 10xxx possible, along with directory lookups and 800 service? Does it seem to you that at this point IDTC is merely fulfilling the role of an ordinary reseller, with possibly some fringe qualifiers to also include it in the ITSP family? It does to me. But I also feel that this is the inevitable way of the immediate future for those companies who hope to realize larger traffic volumes, while at the same time realizing the efficiencies of IP as the mid-span protocol. We're seeing futher evidence here of the hybridization process, in other words. I'd be interested in your views on this, along with those of others, and how you feel this plays into the exemption status of such "carriers." Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1467)	10/8/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

INTERNET TELEPHONY TO GET EXCITE PUSH October 8, 1998 CORPORATE IT UPDATE via NewsEdge Corporation : Internet search engine and portal Excite has teamed up with IDT through a two- year agreement to bring Internet telephony to the masses. The companies have the grand design to bring Internet telephony to the desks of every Excite customer in the UK, Germany, France, Australia, Netherlands, Japan and Sweden. The proposed Net2Phone offering will let calls be originated through the Internet and, if necessary, delivered to a conventional PSTN line. And RSL subsidiary Delta Three has made itss Phone-to-Phone Internet telephony services available in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Finland and Japan via other RSL COM subsidiaries in the listed countries.