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The Home Office: Incubator For VoIP Popularity |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
The latest US
research from industry watcher, IDC, suggests that home office households are
twice as likely to adopt VoIP.
IDC says households with a home office have historically
been early adopters of advanced technology, and this pattern continues with
VoIP communications.
The company's latest survey results indicate that the number
of U.S.
households with income-generating or corporate home offices are more than twice
as likely to implement VoIP in the next 12 months compared with households in
general.
Currently, 39.1% of corporate home offices in the US and 23.7% of
US home-based businesses are interested in or using VoIP. In contrast, only
10.8% of US households without home offices are VoIP aware.
"Home offices will adopt VoIP communications at a faster
rate than U.S.
households overall," said Chris Hazelton, senior analyst, SMB research at
IDC. "Although cost savings are important, features such as convergence
with mobile phones will be increasingly important to home offices in the long
run."
The study reveals that these home office households are not
yet willing to give up their traditional fixed line just yet. Their initial
interest in broadband phone services is to save on long distance calls and they
see IP telephony as a second method of communication after their traditional
landline.
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