For an Internet telephone service, the future is now
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VoiceNet of Ivyland, Bucks County, an Internet service provider has become the first in the Philadelphia area to offer telephone service over the Internet. More than 2,500 customers have signed up for the service. They will be charged 7 cents per minute for long-distance calls within the U.S. and 5 cents per minute for calls in the local area which icludes Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Subscibers will not need to own a computer but will be logged onto the Internet through a local access number. The VoiceNet service cannot be used for international calls at present, but that service will be offered early in 1999. Analysts say that the new industry could be worth nearly $2 billion in 2001.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 1998
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Justices let stand ban on suits against online firms
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Internet service providers were found by the Supreme Court not liable for any defamatory material posted on their systems. The Supreme Court ruling was based on a section of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which immunes online firms from liability for information that originates from third parties. The ruling helped America Online Inc. win a suit filed by Kenneth Zeran for alleged defamation after an unidentified Internet user posted an offending message on an AOL bulletin board with Zeran's home phone number.
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Internet service providers are found by the Supreme Court not liable for any defamatory material posted on their systems
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 1998
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The anonymous medical connection
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Physician Verification Services Inc. is an on-line service for health care providers which aims to link new products from pharmaceutical companies to physicians while at the same time making the identities of the latter confidential. It is the 11th business to become licensed to use the American Medical Association's list of licensed physicians in the United States.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 1999
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