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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:08:47 +0800
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Subject: FCC_ups
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8-10-96. WaPo:
"Phone Service Via the Internet May Slash Rates."
Labs of Advanced Technology has developed a way for
people to make long-distance calls over the Internet
using only their telephones, at about half the price of
ordinary toll calls. Customers would merely call a
central number, then dial their long-distance numbers.
The call is carried on the Internet, then put back onto
the local phone system at its destination. The company
plans to charge 5 to 8 cents per minute for all domestic
U.S. calls, which represents a 50 to 75 percent discount
off most domestic long-distance rates. International
rates would depend on arrangements made with foreign
phone companies. "Twenty years from now, and probably
sooner, I don't see the giants of the telecommunications
industry existing anymore," said the company's
president. The giants hoot, "FCC, PACs, whack him."
"PCs and the Postal Service Challenge the Mailroom Reign of
Pitney Bowes"
New technology has made it possible for IBM, Bell
Atlantic and National Semiconductor to start prowling
around postage meters, which account for $20 billion a
year in postage. With a telephone line to the post
office and some fancy computer software, a "stamp" could
spin out of the printer at the same time the envelope is
being addressed. Computer-generated envelopes will not
only have addresses and stamps, but also a bar code that
can quickly be read by a computer to hasten delivery.
Distinctive stamps called indicia carry a specially
encrypted numerical code that Pitney Bowes believes the
Postal Service should adopt to prevent counterfeiting.
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