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To: J. Williams who wrote (16879)	5/8/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: David Sirk	Respond to of 22810

Everyone is getting into the TELEPHONEY racket now. That is what prompted ATT and Microsoft deal. I'm going to stop posting because I'm leaning to selling at the market. And its not going to do me or any of you any good if I start clouding the present round of Hype with facts. Good luck.

To: J. Williams who wrote (16879)	5/8/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 22810

From what I have heard there are only one or two companies that are near ready to roll out the same type of systems NPEC is about to launch in Sept. This is simply not true. Anybody with an internet connection can make IP-based phone calls at will. That's been possible for years. There are companies laying fibre and building regional/national fibre networks to run pure VoIP over wide areas, but NPEC/Metroplus is clearly not in that game because that requires enormous amounts of capital and technical expertise - and NPEC/Metroplus has none of that. And then there is Telfx, a name I'm sure is familiar to all NPEC investors...