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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2055)	12/2/1998 6:27:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Teltran Offers Voice Over Internet Service To US Telcos December 2, 1998 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.: While every Internet service provider (ISP) and telecommunications carrier worth its salt seems to be offering Voice over IP (Internet protocol) services, few ISPs and telcos care to "reinvent the wheel" on the subject, so they contract the service out to established firms. Now Teltran International, an affiliate of the OzEmail Interline operation of Australia, is planning to offer its VoIP services to US firms and telecommunications carriers. According to company officials, the Teltran VoIP Service (TVS) will offer customers a VoIP phone service to 10 countries immediately, with more countries being added during the first quarter of next year. Unlike some of the competing companies in this area, Teltran says that its service will operate on a phone-to-phone basis, and will use a private Internet network to route calls from its gateways to gateways of other affiliates around the world. Using this approach, the firm says, avoids the need for carriers to route IP calls over the public Internet -- a move that costs money and can result in call. TVS says it plans to offer service to all countries worldwide using its international long distance carrier network for calls to countries not being routed over the Internet. For the US offering, Teltran and Interline have signed multi-year agreements whereby Teltran is an affiliate in Interline's worldwide consortium of carriers and will also refile traffic that does not get routed over its Internet telephony network. Other Interline affiliates, include Mitsubishi in Japan, Hyundai in South Korea, Concentric in the US, Magic Tel in Hong Kong and New Zealand's Voyager. Byron Lerner, Teltran's president, said that the firm's VoIP service will continue the Internet-based telephony strategy that the company is pursuing. "We feel TVS, coupled with our other telephony services, will lead to a very profitable 1999," he said. According to company officials, Teltran is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as a global, facilities-based common carrier. Teltran's Web site is at teltran.com .

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2055)	12/4/1998 7:35:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Full FCC DOC included> BELL ATLANTIC, BELLSOUTH, GTE SYSTEM TELEPHONE COMPANIES, AND PACIFIC BELL. Concluded the FCC investigation of new access offerings filed by Bell Atlantic, Bellsouth, GTE System Telephone Companies, and Pacific Bell, establishing Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line service (ADSL). Found that these offerings are interstate services and are properly tariffed at the federal level. In addition, rejected the argument that the possibility of a price squeeze warrants the Commission's transfer to the states of its ratemaking authority with respect to interstate Digital Subscriber Line services such as those at issue in this proceeding. Action by the Commission. Adopted: November 30, 1998. by MO&O. (FCC No. 98-317). CCB Internet URL: fcc.gov