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To: Gary R. Owens who wrote (2583)3/24/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Gary R. Owens  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3178
 
IP Telephony Goes Mainstream
March 23, 1999 - 9:30 AM
By Roderick Beck

ragingbull.com

Excerpt

Interestingly enough, the predictions of access charge melt down have not come true. The reason is simple. The long distance giants are afraid of Internet telephony. They are wracked by internal battles over the merits of the technology with the older generation 'BellHead' engineers championing the traditional circuit-switched technology and younger 'NetHeads' proselytizing on behalf of the emerging Internet technology.