The information technology revolution is beginning to rock major telephone companies with the successive debut of unprecedented services such as free international phone calls and flat-rate domestic out-of-town calls.
And it is increasingly likely that use of high-speed Internet connections will soon result in free domestic phone calls.
At Necca, an Internet cafe in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district, foreigners frequently wait in long lines to make international phone calls over the Net free of charge.
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