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Technology Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FCM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grupo Brad who wrote (132)	3/30/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Mel Fox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2891

Anyone: Here is an interesting read on AT@T and Novell, but more generally on the Internet Telephony topic as a whole. This not for everyone to read and it is a bit long, but it is interesting to me and I wonder where in the matrix of businesses noted in this link, would FCM/FNET fit? So, if anyone has any comments, and how FCM might be a player in mix of thoughts discussed in the article, I would certainly like to hear what you have to say. pbs.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is an excerpt of the article. "..... Crazy TCP/IP is in the news because it turns out to be the best way to handle all those different types of data at the same time. Want to mix voice, video, music, and AOL? Use TCP/IP. And with the Internet as an international backbone that goes places AT&T doesn't and costs AT&T next to nothing, IP telephony is suddenly an especially hot technology. Of course, there are tradeoffs. The early Internet phone products sucked. There was no gateway out of the Internet to reach phones that weren't connected to computers that were in turn connected to the Net. Even on computer-to-computer communication, the other guy had to be expecting your call. And the quality sucked, with lots of line noise, echoes and dropped words. They were free calls, sure, but free came at a stiff price. That was before IP telephony became big business. Now there are IP telephony product programs at Cisco, Lucent and 3Com aimed at both offering better back-end support for IP telephones and better front-end systems, too. Aplio ships an Internet telephone that doesn't need a PC, for example. And lots of phone companies are building gateways from the Internet to the local phones systems of their countries. The Internet phone calls aren't free, but they can call regular phones. .........." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mel