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US VoIP Households Grow Steadily |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 30 March 2007 |
The percentage of US households that have a broadband telephone service grew by more than a million and a half in the last Quarter of 2006.
According to industry number crunchers, In-Stat, the North American
Cable operators and VoIP pure play provider, Vonage, continue to make
inroads into the huge US residential telephony market.
According to data from the researchers
US Residential VoIP Market Tracker service, more than 10.6 million US
households now have at least one active VoIP user, up from
approximately 9 million households at the end of Q3.
It
also notes that the Cable TV operators are enjoying all the spoils of
war and are emerging as the dominant market force, slowing the growth
of the client-based VoIP market. Only Skype managed to show gains in
that segment during the final calendar Quarter.
In-Stat has also uncovered the fact that significant numbers are switching
off their traditional fixed line service when they sign up to VoIP.
More than 61% of active residential VoIP users reported they had
discontinued or replaced a traditional (non-VoIP) phone service when
they got their VoIP service.
The percentage was highest (76%) among
those who use only a network/ATA-based service like those offered by the cable companies or Vonage.
Skype's dominance of the client-based VoIP market has
grown as its major competitors in this segment lost active users during
the fourth quarter while it continued to show strong growth, said the
researcher.
The ability to bypass international tolls continues to be a big driver
of client-based VoIP services, with users of client-based VoIP services
reporting that 52% of their VoIP calls are international long distance
while network/ATA-based VoIP users report only 6% of their calls are international long distance.
The percentage of residential VoIP users who report that they use their
service for business calls either in part or exclusively continues to
rise with 51% reporting that they use the service for both business and
personal calls and 4% reporting they use it exclusively for business
calls.
www.instat.com/abstracts/voip_tracker2.asp
www.in-stat.com
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