IP: Reed Hundt on Internet Phone BYPASS

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Posted-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:16:54 -0400
From: Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@radiomail.net>






FCC Chief Attempts to Navigate Through Telecommunications Storm
By Stephen Keating, The Denver Post


Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News


Jul. 29--Telecommunications, one-seventh of the nation's economy, appears to be 
in turmoil: mergers, brutal competition and wary consumers predominate.


Never fear. Reed Hundt is here.


...


Would making international phone calls cheaply through the Internet undercut 
phone industry pricing? ``I have never met anyone in America who has made an 
Internet phone call,'' said Hundt.