The whole point of the original litigation by the U.S. Dept. of Justice was to force more competition into the long distance telephony space.
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The long-term erosion of local and long distance telephony is inevitable.
The home entertainment market will be revolutionized by DSL's delivery of movies-on-demand, long-distance telephony, interactive gaming and other enhanced services.
The underlying price structure of long-distance telephony has dropped 80% in two years, thanks to a bonanza in fiber-optic capacity.
Most Internet traffic comes from outside India, and thus hits the bottleneck of India's publicly owned telecoms companies, which have a monopoly of long-distance telephony and international data exchange.
Thanks to more than 40 such deals in the past five years, WorldCom has transformed itself into the world's largest provider of Internet services, and a big force in local, long-distance and international telephony.
Svyazinvest was originally conceived both as a holding company for the state's interests in 86 local telephone firms across Russia and as a competitor for Rostelecom, a state-run near-monopoly in long-distance and international telephony.
As consumers move aggressively toward dependence on cell phones, in some cases disconnecting landline service entirely, the irony is that telephony today often has long distance bundled right into a nationwide package for pennies a minute or no additional charge at all.
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It forthrightly refused to recognize that the Internet was obliterating traditional barriers between long-distance and local telephone calls and between telephony, TV, radio and cable.
And while many mobile services don't come with international calling, using the Skype service you can make international calls without paying hefty long distance fees, although there will be Internet telephony charges.
It will compete with the incumbent Telecom Italia in providing local telephony but will transfer customers' long-distance calls to the incumbent.
Long-distance services were freed in January 2000, and the state monopoly on international telephony is to end next April.
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