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Confirmed: Wholesale VoIP Took Off In 2006 |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
After taking
something like a decade to gain any sort of momentum, Voice over IP
technology finally started to have an impact on the calling habits of
American users in 2006 with an additional 3.8 million households signing up for
a VoIP service in 2006 according to In-Stat.
The research
company says that the US market for VoIP advanced dramatically last
year with a wide range of companies benefiting from the take up.
As
a result In-Stat says wholesale VoIP revenues have begun to grow
quickly, as cable companies and other new entrants turning to the
wholesalers for white label services.
The researcher says these
companies might lack the network facilities, but as they enter the
market they are driving demand for telephony features and applications
to the benefit of the wholesale network operators in the background.
In
its report, Wholesale VoIP Forecast: Consumer VoIP Accelerates Demand,
In-Stat predicts that Consumer VoIP adoption will drive wholesale VoIP
revenues to US$3.8 billion by 2010 from US$1.1 billion in 2006.
"As retail VoIP expands, wholesale VoIP will accelerate quickly," says Bryan Van Dussen,
In-Stat analyst. "The largest segment remains international VoIP, but
we expect the market for local (US) services to surge from 12% of all
revenues to 27% by 2010."
The report says that International
wholesale VoIP termination/origination revenues are actually
experiencing declining growth rates.
www.in-stat.com
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