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To: David L Kosakowski who wrote (17306)	5/17/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22810

This is one group marketing USAT's (USATalks) flat rate long distance calling for as little as $20.00 per month per customer: tmmg.net I have a friend from Panama who currently spends over $200.00 per month calling her relatives back home....think she will opt for this? This is USAT's home page: usatalks.com USAT has been "quietly" having their national network installed and beta tested by a division of Franklin Telecommunications (FCM on the AMEX) called FNET. FCM sells the hardware, FNET installs the FCM hardware that enables VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone calls with "carrier quality" phone-to-phone conversations. USAT is about to "light up" the network and will be billing customers shortly. This is predicted to be a multi-billion dollar industry by 2003. What does this have to do with NPEC? If NPEC's MetroPLUS is any where near involved in the same game, they could just possibly make some real money. The technology is in FCM's DVG's (data/voice gateways) that allow the conversion of analog conversations to digital and back to analog at the DVG's....all via the internet (and in some cases private intranets) at a much lower cost than currently possible with all the tariffs, etc. that currently encumber and add to the cost of long distance calls. Dave