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Technology Stocks : IDT *(idtc) following this new issue?* -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rest42 who wrote (3156)	3/28/1999 8:51:00 AM
From: FieldEffect	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

Don't Forget Wireless VOIP Phones in the Home I agree that IDT will have to address the wireless phenomenon in its business model for VOIP. As a practical matter, shouldn't this also include a VOIP version of the ubiquitous wireless handsets we use in our homes (and which currently connect to the copper wired "Plain Old Telephone System", or POTS)? I currently can press a button on my Palm Pilot and an IR beam wirelessly instructs my PC's printer to print out the designated document. If 3COM technology can do this, it should only be a short step for IDT to develop similar wireless technology for Net2Phone. It would require the manufacture of wireless handsets that would work up to, say, 400 meters from your home PC and would instruct your (always on) PC to connect to the IDT telephony network and make local and long distance calls, just as the current Net2Phone does with a more directly connected mouseclick. Make sense? Keep in mind also that Microsoft is doing some serious work in working with a consortium of companies to develop standards for wireless in the home and SOHO environment. Ultimately, this technology can eliminate the current mess of tangled cables that we all have stuffed behind our computer desks.