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Technology Stocks : FunPhone.com planning to go public? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (76)	3/30/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: Intrepid1	Respond to of 647

Zeev, the "Funphone" technology was discussed late last year on Art Bell's "Coast To Coast" radio talk show. His guest was America's pre-eminent theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku (http://www.dorsai.org/~mkaku/). It was my impression then that it would be quite some time before this technology was ready for a commercial launch. This is fascinating. regards etc.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (76)	3/30/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 647

Mr. Hed, Well, some of the other messages on this thread have addressed some of my doubts. But I still have a lot of questions. I am trying to figure out how they are going to make money. Even with this new technology, they will still have to have gateways to the PSTN, in which case they will still be paying local access fees. This is one of the things that the long distance carriers are trying to avoid by providing long distance telephony connections via cable modems. The local access dollars paid by LD carriers are not trivial and that is essentially the model that FunPhone is mimicking. I pointed these same issues out over on the FNTT thread. I suspect that the goal is to get sucked up by one of the internet portal sites, but who really knows. JXM