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Microcap & Penny Stocks : DGIV-A-HOLICS...FAMILY CHIT CHAT ONLY!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Engine who wrote (38990)	2/22/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: paulmcg0	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50264

Anybody can send data, including digitized voice, between 2 computers on the Internet. The really impressive trick is creating a true gateway to the PSTN (public switched telephone network), so you can call people on a regular phone. From the description of the DGIV "demo" it doesn't sound like they did that. Of course, there's more to it than just the technical aspects - you need permission from the phone companies and the regulators. Remember when I mentioned before that neither Teltek nor Digitcom had an inter-exchange carrier license from the California PUC? For an example of an IP telephoney company that actually is able to do that, take a look at deltathree.com, a subsidiary of a Nasdaq traded telecom company, RSLCF (headquartered in Canada). You have your "wannabes" like DGIV who issue lots of press releases about what they are planning on doing, and you have people who are actually doing IP telephony in the real world.