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Technology Stocks : Voice-on-the-net (VON), VoIP, Internet (IP) Telephony -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. De Paul who wrote (2660)	5/2/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 3178

Hello Kenneth, > How do you get your cable phone to work when the electricity goes > out? The same way that you get xDSL, or your cordless phone to work ... a UPS. ;-) I believe that we are quickly approaching the point of distributed power requirements ... many people will argue, no doubt ... > Although I would get a cable modem if it were available, I would > not trust my only access as quickly. I agree. I think that it will take a lot of effort from AT&T to get the reliability of the cable network up to the standards that they created for the telephone network. I think this is one of the big values that AT&T brings to the TCI relationship ... > I would certainly love a second line, though. I used to have > teenagers, and would have thought a restricted local phone just for > them would have been great -- wire taps or not. Yep ... and it will get even better. As everything move to all digital Internet VoIP then you'll have even more control possibilities ... ;-) Scott C. Lemon