Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:50:01 -0500 From: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" <rafareta@mexcom.net> To: Mike HAGGAG <mikehaggag@mindspring.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long Distance Service offered by ISPs Message-ID: <34075219.148E1EB5@mexcom.net> References: <3.0.1.32.19970829163025.00697814@mindspring.com>
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Mike HAGGAG wrote: > > 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. > > Now imagine this being setup in an organized way and almost overnight, ISPs > all over the world are breaking phone companies' monopolies for good. > > Maybe that's whay phone companies (AT&T, Sprint, MCI etc...) got on the > Internet access providing game so quickly... they saw this coming... > > I'd like to get some feedback from y'all on this since I despise phone > companies' monopolies and I've toying with the idea of starting a ISP > myself... > > Regards Sound cool but have you considered the network congestion? I guess this is somthing I don't like in this moment. RafaReta
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