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arsal987 · 04-28-2008, 04:02 PM

.:: VoIP INTERNATIONAL MARKET ::.

There’s no arguing that VoIP is making a huge impact on today’s business sector with its promises of reduced operating costs and long-distance charges. According to research, almost half of small companies and two-thirds of large organizations in North America will be using VoIP products and services by 2010. Well every industry has a story, and VoIP’s story circa 2008 is about a technology with growing business adoption, modest consumer success and an increasing dominance of the U.S. residential market by cable providers. (Infonetics)

Where VoIP standing in following areas today ?

VoIP Enterprises :

According to researches:
In 2005, the big news in VoIP was that U.S. revenues had finally broken the $1 billion mark, raising the question, “Is VoIP finally here?” But in 2007, the big news was that just over $1 billion in traditional PSTN , PBXes were sold, for what Infonetics Research speculated might be the last time ever. At least for enterprise deployments, the question about VoIP has become, “Is PSTN still around?”
Of course, IP PBX systems have been stealing PSTN’s market share for some time, but in 2007, hybrid IP PBX systems made up two-thirds of all lines shipped, while pure IP systems alone accounted for 18 percent. In addition, MarketResearch.com reported that 50 percent of global telecom traffic is now handled over IP, and it predicted this figure would increase to 75 percent “in a few years' time.”
These figures jibe nicely with Garrett Smith’s anecdotal report that sales of enterprise VoIP systems are getting both larger and easier to close (roughly 20 times the rate of a year ago).

Source: Hosted IP Centrex/IP PBX Line and Residential VoIP Line Forecast , North America, 2004-2010

Consumer VoIP:

Consumer VoIP adoption remains modest worldwide…
As reported just under 80 million VoIP subscribers worldwide in 2007, with the strongest adoption rates in the Asia Pacific region. That said, MarketResearch.com predicted that total VoIP subscribers would rise to 135 million in 2011, and London-based research firm Disruptive Analysis Ltd. predicted a mobile-VoIP market that will rise from today's essentially zero users to 250 million users by 2012. Disruptive Analysis reasoned that mobile providers are unlikely to keep running separate voice and IP networks in parallel and will choose IP by default. Wow!
German Internet-traffic-management-systems provider Ipoque sampled three petabytes of anonymous data from Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe. It estimated that while VoIP makes up just one percent of all Internet traffic, it is used by 30 percent of Internet users, and Skype Ltd. accounts for 95 percent of all VoIP traffic. (December 2007)

This Figure shows the Business and Consumer Surplus as an aspect of features and time.
Where, all Voip technologies are around with business and consumer surplus.

Smaller Companies, Big Tools:

Lots of smaller companies are making high-quality tools for VoIP. Sight Speed remains the market leader for multiparty IP videoconferencing, and v6.0 was released in February with improved video quality and the ability to record and play back two-party video calls. Gizmocall offers ad-based consumer VoIP, opening the door on a new profit model. And eStara’s business-focused push-to-call product claims 3 million unique users.
Most of these only address the consumer market. We are starting to see the first companies starting to address the business markets. On the open-source front, Digium provides an Asterisk business package. Asterisk is a tiny player here compared to Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Siemens and Toshiba.

Source: Hosted IP Centrex/IP PBX Line and Residential VoIP Line Forecast , North America, 2004-2010

The U.S. VoIP Market:

Well in U.S., Ike Elliott assembled an interesting table ranking the top six VoIP providers by both revenue and subscribers.

Cable Companies:
1. CableVision 2. Charter Communications 3. Comcast 4.Time Warner Cable Inc.
Pure VoIP providers:
5. Skype and 6. Vonage Holdings Corp.

Vonage and Skype are in third and fifth place respectively, with approximately 23 percent of revenue and 27 percent of subscribers in a market Elliott estimates at $1.44 billion in revenues. (He had to estimate how much revenue each subscriber represents to Skype, settling on $35.70 per month).
Unfortunately for these two, Elliott reports, the cable companies’ VoIP-subscription rates are accelerating while those of the pure plays are slowing. Worse still, cable has already captured 73 percent of the U.S. market for residential VoIP.

This story may be best told by this TeleGeography graphic.

Voip Providers

Millions

Comcast

4

Time Warner

3

Vonage

2.6

Cox Communication Inc

2.4

So here Time Warner’s VoIP subscriber base pursuing and then surpassing Vonage’s in Q207. The four largest U.S. VoIP providers now have a total of 12 million customers.

The VoIP market is sufficiently fragmented that it’s tough to find reliable numbers for its size and growth rate. WhereRich Tehrani estimates the size of the U.S. consumer VoIP market at around $1.2 billion in 2004, based on 4–5 million users paying an average of $25/month for various VoIP services, but while user numbers will increase, Tehrani thinks voice itself will become commoditized. That said, in September 2006, analyst firm Analysis predicted that cellular VoIP revenues would surpass those of fixed-line VoIP by 2012, generating some $25.9 billion in the U.S. and Europe.

Every two-guys-and-a-credit-card plus many better-funded operations are starting a VoIP business for the chance to be in the most rapidly growing sector of a $1.2 trillion global telecom market that’s projected to grow to $1.6 trillion by 2010.

Arsalan Ahmed
PR Coordinator
Voigate Inc.
Voigate is a North American innovative VOIP Wholesale and Retail Business. CallOne and Voigate are Voigate Business names!

Voigate Provide International Wholesale Telecommunication Services and support International Clients via US Based Networks. Voigate also support local and long distance Telecom Services for small Businesses and Enterprises

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