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To: Hawaii60 who wrote (7479)	5/10/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: ade8	Respond to of 30916

To: Hawaii 60 - Briefing.Com news. This is the first write up by Briefing. Com that I have ever seen. The following aritcle appeared on Friday, May 7th, at 1:20P.M. on Briefing Com's story stocks page. Net2Phone which is IDTC's net telephony division has a marketing department. They are offering free phone calls over the internet on Mother's Day to everyone who signs up at www.net2phonedirect.com. You have to sign up for the service which requires giving a credit card number and opening an account, but you don't have to use the srvice, after the promotion. If you decide to, Net2Phone charges 7.9jcents per minute at all times. Net2Phone's systme is where internet phone calls are headed. The user calls a local or toll-free number, just like you would with a credit card, and then the number you want to reach along with your account number. The long distnace portion of the phone call is routed on the internet, not over leased circuit swhithched phone lines, and then sent to a gateway near the destination phone call, where it gets switched to the local network. Phone call over the net using computeres have been around for a few years, but you had to establilsh your won contact with the other computer user and use microphones, not phones. It was only for techies. What is happeinning is the blueprint for the future extension of the net into other uses. First it will be telephone service- the recipient of the call won't even know it was routed over the internet: the phone will just ring-and then later we ecpect all kinds of internet/TV/phone pager integration. Internet appliances such as phones with email and coordinated calendars are likely very soon. America Online (AOL) could easily offer something like this. Briefing.com even ecpects monthly subscription with unlimited calling minutes to be available eventually. IDTC is the furthest along with this type of service; they are likely to spin-off Net2Phone eventually, but no registration papers have been filed as of yet. We plan to call Mom on Sunday, using Net2Phone, and telll her wer are now talking over the internet. "That's wonderful, honey, ow you can call me more ofter" is the response we expect.