ip: netscape builds in telephony

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> COOLUM, AUSTRALIA, 1996 MAR 13 (NB) -- Netscape Communications within
> six months will build voice software for making low-cost long distance
> calls via the Internet into its Navigator program, the company's
> co-founder and vice president of technology, Marc Andreesen, said at
> a technical forum in Australia.
>
> Andreesen told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that telephone
> companies could no longer justify the way they charge for voice
> telephony, especially over long distance.
>
> "We're going to build the voice telephony stuff into our Navigator
> (software). We can get it out to 25 or 30 million desktops in the
> next six months. That's a big enough critical mass for it to take
> off," he said, according to the newspaper. He predicted phone companies
> would find much of their equipment "rapidly becoming useless."


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