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

To: Hawaii60 who wrote (3395)	4/4/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 30916

EXCERPT of PRGY+IDT article below>>>>>I was hoping for a lead back into the article so I could highlight some points, thanks. "I think when IP telephony first came into the marketplace, a lot of people were having conferences [titled] 'How an ISP Can Become a Telco' because people felt that ISPs would be the perfect partner," says Mordy Rothberg, executive vice president, strategic development for IDT Corp.'s (www.idt.net) Net2Phone service. "[But] Internet telephony is not as simple as just putting gateways through your network and, boom, charging customers. If you would say to a telecom company, 'Hey, be an ISP, it's very simple--just set up a bank of modems,' ISPs would laugh at that." He adds that many ISPs don't really want to become full-blown ITSPs and carry the burden that goes along with becoming a telecommunications provider, "they're looking for services to distinguish themselves from other ISPs." But, Rothberg says, for "the ones that do [want to become telcos], we have solutions for them as well." "IDT has a reseller deal with Prodigy Internet (www.prodigy.excite.com), in which the ISP will include IDT's Net2Phone software on the Internet access disks it provides to subscribers." The deal also will allow users to download IDT's IP telephony software from Prodigy's website for free, give it a try and then purchase time by calling an 800 number. Rothberg, says, the two companies still are working out the particulars of the relationship. soundingboardmag.com