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US Only A Bit Player In Consumer VoIP |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
When it comes to consumer
VoIP adoption it's a pretty global affair, but recent research from
In-Stat says Europe actually leads the world in subscriber numbers.
{kl_rssfeed}Broadband telephones moved that little bit further toward the mainstream in 2006 as consumers began signing up to Voice over
IP
(VoIP) services in a big way. According to the latest numbers on the
industry there were 34 million subscribers more by the end of 2006.
That's still a pretty small market in real terms, but the researcher
says this will continue to change rapidly. By 2011, In-Stat predicts
the consumer VoIP market will total nearly US$44 billion worldwide.
And by 2011, the US will represent only 18% of the global consumer VoIP
market says In-Stat. Europe is a big place of course. The high-tech
researcher says the
countries with the largest VoIP subscriber gains in 2006 include
France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
"Europe showed the largest gain in consumer VoIP subscribers," says
Keith Nissen, In-Stat analyst. "The European consumer VoIP market
increased by over 14 million subscribers last year. The European VoIP
market is being aided by local loop unbundling (LLU), the introduction
of
cable telephony and triple-play service bundles, as well as operator
consolidation. In contrast, US wireline operators added only 4 million
VoIP subscribers in 2006. No one seems interested in selling anything
other than plain-old-telephone-service".
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