CalTech Develops New Ways to Provide Local/Long Distance Services for Home and Business; Local and Long Distance Service as Never Provided Before in the United States.SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The services will be marketed under the product name CiTC. Customers of the new service will receive their choice of a wireless digital handset or wireless digital deskset phones. These phones will provide local phone service billed in a familiar format. All calls within 16 miles of the customer's home or office will be billed as local measured unit calls, just as they are today from wired phones. However, because these phones are wireless and transportable, any call originating in their LATA will be considered originating at their home or office. For example: A customer has a home (called his CiTC home site) in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and takes his CiTC home phone with him to the baseball game in San Jose, Calif. Any call they make from San Jose to any destination that is within 16 miles of their CiTC home site in San Francisco will be considered a local call. Calls beyond 16 miles from their CiTC home site will be considered toll or long distance calls. This mobile advantage will also apply to business. In addition, homes and businesses will no longer have to be concerned about phone jacks. For business, this can be a substantial advantage in not having to rewire re·wire v. re·wired, re·wir·ing, re·wires v.tr. To provide with new wiring: rewired the old house. v.intr. To install new wiring. everything when employees change desks. Long distance service under CiTC will be provided with the customer's choice of either CalTech's Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) long distance network or directly over the public Internet. Either network will be accessible to CalTech customers by using traditional 1+ dialing. There will be no PIN numbers or extra digits to dial. CalTech's Voice over IP long distance Network will guarantee voice quality and provide very competitive pricing. Voice over IP employs the latest Internet and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). advancements. Voice quality will not be guaranteed on calls placed over the public Internet, but the pricing will be adjusted accordingly. Most features associated with local phone service will also be offered, including voice mail, call forwarding, caller ID, 3-way calling, fax, and paging. Internet access, e-mail and web site hosting will also be available. Another unique feature of CalTech's CiTC service is real time billing. Customers will have access to their billing information 24 hours a day, seven days a week and it will always be completely up-to-date, per the time of their call. This information will be made available via voice response units and a secure web site. Customers may choose to have their invoice delivered over the Internet, via fax, via e-mail, on computer CD or diskette The official name for the floppy disk. See floppy disk. diskette - floppy disk , or traditional paper via the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. . "Our CiTC services are going to completely change the model everyone has been looking at for voice Internet services and local service competition," said Jeffrey Elkins, president/CEO of CalTech International Telecom. "We are using today's state-of-the-art technology, but we will always be incorporating technical advances as they present themselves. Our goal is to maintain CiTC as the high tech telephony product." CiTC service is expected to begin by January 1999. CalTech's Voice over IP network will provide originating service to customers in California, Illinois and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of by November 1998. The network will be adding new markets each month as they are constructed. CalTech International Telecom is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Danville, Calif. Incorporated January 1995, CalTech has been operational selling long distance and local phone service as a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) or IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. in California, Illinois, Colorado and Arizona.
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