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

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (2675)	5/3/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. De Paul	Respond to of 3178

Yes cable looks like a good technical alternative, however, the one thing I am observing is the market will probably react, somewhat like with long distance, with such inertia, that VoIP will follow traditional service operator initiatives at first. Businesses will automatically gravitate to traditional service providers, residences will probably not adapt their homes to so many phone extensions over cable and so on. The AT&T cable ploy seems like a bad bet to me. I also guess that AT&T will get into leasing local lines and bundling services to grab customers with their old standby marketing techniques so much faster than nerwer cable or older other locals, that they too will soon see the mistake they made with cable.