From VOIP to MOIP: The multimedia future and the bundling myth

TORONTO – Providing voice over Internet is only the beginning. A richer, fuller feature set (video, videoconferencing, seamless wireless and wireline integration and other niche services) will be what truly leads that market into profits and potential, said a panel discussion at the Canadian Telecom Summit, which began this morning at the Toronto Congress Centre. With companies like AOL and Yahoo! and MSN and Google turning voice into some sort of free throw-away to attract more eyeballs to its clients' ads, the traditional voice providers – as well as the newcomers such as VOIPsters Vonage and the cable companies –...