Arthur D. Little and Phillips Tarifica have warned that leading telcos will lose millions of dollars in international revenues after 2000

• France's Alcatel Telecom joined with Cisco
• Deutche Telekom opened division
• Qwest Comm using 9.6 Gbps backbone
• Franchises in cities could kill Telecoms
• Japan's Nifty Corp to offer also
• Lucent Tech offering Australian service for intranets using Bell Labs' Elemedia voice compression, complies with emerging voice over IP industry standard, VoIPIA1.0.
• OzEmail Phone is commercial service in Australia
• 200-150 ms delay is a problem
• Vince Cerf predicts half of all voice traffic will be carried by IP
• Other ventures in Japan, China, Africa, Mexico, and India
• Banned in Hungary and Czech Republic