Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:29:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus.tfs.net> To: mikehaggag@mindspring.com (Mike HAGGAG) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Distance Service offered by ISPs Message-ID: <199708292229.RAA01149@argus.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970829163025.00697814@mindspring.com> from Mike HAGGAG at "Aug 29, 97 04:30:25 pm"
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In reply: > Web Phone has been around for quite a while now. I recently read something > about an alliance between AT&T, Dialogic and VocalTec (makers of Web Phone) > to develop phone services using the Internet. > > Imagine any individual anywhere in the world being able to lift his phone's > handset at phone, place a LOCAL call to his local ISP, enter a code (or a > PIN), then dial a long distance call (to next city or around the world). > The call would be routed over the Internet to another ISP in the > destination city who would route the call to the person being called. All > for no cost to either the caller or the callee other than their monthly fee > to their respective ISPs. Not to mention just being an obnoxious waste of Internet bandwidth. I hear better quality voice over intercontinental SSB on HF than you find on these internet phone pieces of crap. The infrastructure for all these pie-in-the-sky internet promises will not exist for the most part until 30 to 50 years from now. So please don't waste my bandwidth just to ask the called party "what did you say? please repeat that." a million times. Reply-to: /dev/null jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25 Packet: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam voice: KC5VDJ - 6 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. grid: EM28PW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+
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