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IP: NEW TWIST ON INTERNET PHONE CALLS
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 03:01:29 -0500
NEW TWIST ON INTERNET PHONE CALLS N.J.-based International Discount Telecommunications Corp. will start an Internet telephony service next year that allows computer users to ring up anyone with a telephone. Other Internet telephony services require both parties to be online in order to talk. This new service enables an Internet user to patch into the local telephone network of the person being called, for about one tenth the cost of an international phone call or less. "We expect this is going to totally collapse the price of international phone calls," says IDT's president. Meanwhile, IDT's going to have plenty of competition -- the publisher of NetWatch newsletter is starting a Free World Dialup experimental service, similar to IDT's, and a number of other companies are starting PC-to-PC services. (Wall Street Journal 10 Nov 95 B7A)
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