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To: Skip Henderson who wrote (17002)	5/10/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: Mark S. Schroeder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22810

May 10, 1999 To: Dave DiRicco From:Mark Jensen Re: Metroplus Dear Dave - The following isin response to the questions posed by Mark Thomasee in the email. MetroPlus will be offering telephone-to-telephone calling called Internet Telephony. For the consumer, it works the same as the phone system now. The only difference is that to call out you have to dial an access number. The system works like this. MetroPlus builds a special switch that routes calls from land lines over the Internet and back to a land line on the other end. To place a call over the Internet, the user simply dials a seven-digit access code that accesses the switch. The regular number is dialed. The signal is carried over the land line from the person's house to the switch. It is switched onto the Internet and received at a switch at the other end. The switch routes the call to the land line on the other end and then to the receiver's telephone. 1. The system is point-to-point. We have to have a switch in Vancouver and Seattle to place calls to a from those cities. The goal of MetroPlus is to build access to many cities in the coming months. 2. There are no special attachments. The systems that have attachments are for individual callers and are usually attached to a PC. We are building a commercial system available to literally millions of users. 3. The caller has to be a MetroPlus member. The receiver has to be in a location where we have a termination switch. Our marketing will reflect the locations we have available. Our first major cities are Vancouver and Seattle. We will quickly expand through the purchasing of wholesale minutes through other VoiceOver IP backbones. 4. Commercial VoiceOver IP networks are just now coming into being. Our system is unique because it is mobile. We can sell a license to an operator and they can place a switch in a local business in any city. "Mobile Telephony Services" is our hook. We are mainly a marketing organization. Our strength is building customers for the service. We don't want to be in AT&T's business. 5. The commercial grade technology only recently became available for VoiceOver IP. It is projected that 6 to 8 percent of all long distance will be over the Internet in the next few years. Companies have been using VoiceOver IP in limited capacity for a while now. 6. Our market for licensees is similar to that of a franchise: - A business looking to expand its services - An individual looking for a better opportunity ISP's are the best target. So are computer hardware companies. A system is built from personal computers, switches and voice cards. We are mainly interested in the ability of the licensee to generate 1,000 new customers. I am sure there are many more questions. Please forward them to me. It is a new and exciting venture and we want everyone to know what we are doing and how. Sincerely, Mark Jensen Marketing Director