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To: The Phoenix who wrote (19443)	11/20/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Gary I took a stab at it because of some recent articles I read (which I'm still trying to find the links to!) but I believe like you that the numbers are way too low. It would be nice if we had a hard source that we could trust! Eric

To: The Phoenix who wrote (19443)	11/20/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

This off the VOIP/VON Thread--from a Price-Waterhouse Report- VOIP only estimates-- It meets your 300B$ requirement Remarkable improvements have occurred in voice over the Internet and especially over IP-based private networks, and these will continue, improving the quality of IP telephony. But the share of the voice market claimed by Internet service providers, though growing, is not significant-various analysts predict worldwide revenues for IP telephony service providers in the neighborhood of $2 billion to $8 billion in five to six years (by comparison, standard telephony service worldwide drew revenues of $495 billion in 1997, according to the International Telecommunications Union, which predicts total spending of $850 billion by 2005).