Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Boplicity who wrote (4133)	1/11/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Video is not voice and can't be subsumed under "unified messaging" as the term is currently used. Messaging isn't where the profitability action is. It's just business as usual. Telcos must provide added value services to pay for all the infrastructure to support it including the voice adjunct. Cable VoIP could never afford the infrastructure necessary to create it. It's the broadband services that accomplish that and enable messaging to come along for the ride. Not so much vaporware as it may seem. There are lots of players who already have developed and now market videophones. The only constraint is two-way bandwidth. Higher bandwidth consumption means any carrier will charge more for it.