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From: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" <rafareta@mexcom.net>
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To: Mike HAGGAG <mikehaggag@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Long Distance Service offered by ISPs
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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