VoIP Future and Trends

04 October 2007

By 2012 there will be 435 million mobile phones in circulation which can use session-initiation protocol (Sip), it has been suggested.

A report by market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media made the claim after it was found that sales of Sip mobile phones will hit 275 million this year.

This confirms the growing importance of internet telephony in both the consumer and business spheres, as Sip-enabled phones can allow connection to IP private branch exchanges (PBXs) and voice calls over the web.

09 November 2007

03 January 2007

We will all have our own views on what will be hot or not in 2008, but this list of 5 areas to look at seems pretty spot on to me:

28 December 2007

VoIP clearly has moved into the mainstream, but 2007 marked a year of high-profile stumbles that appear to signal the end of standalone IP telephony.

17 January 2008

The Korean market for internet-based telephony is expected to grow over 50 percent annually over the next five years as an increasing number of households and businesses replace their traditional service with the new and cheaper way of making calls, a report showed Thursday (Jan. 17).

According to the report by industry consulting firm, IDC Korea, the local market for Internet calls, or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), will likely expand by an annual average of 53 percent between 2007 and 2011 to 1.42 trillion won ($1.5 billion).

22 February 2008

Consumer VoIP subscriber growth continues to soar in Western Europe, reaching 21.7 million at mid-year 2007, up from 15.6 million only six months earlier. TeleGeography estimates that the ranks of European VoIP subscribers had grown to 28.9 million by year-end 2007.

21 March 2008

Despite upheaval, doom and gloom in the U.S. economic world, the VoIP industry remains strong, according to a new study.

The study found that VoIP use is on the rise among both individuals and businesses in the United States, following European trends, and reports say those numbers will continue to rise.

11 May 2008

Many suspected it because of anecdotal evidence that often apartment renters no longer bother to connect fixed line phones. Now a new report confirms it. Nearly half of household consumers with a phone in Australia prefer to use their mobile phones as their primary means of voice communications.

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02 February 2007

ABI Research predicts 'stellar growth'.

Global residential VoIP services will attract 267 million subscribers in 2012, a huge jump from the 38 million users registered last year, new research has predicted.

"Hosted service providers, the pioneers of commercial VoIP, are going to grow to some extent," said ABI Research principal broadband analyst Michael Arden.

29 March 2007

The ongoing patent dispute between Verizon and Vonage signals the looming end of independent Internet phone providers as a major force in the residential voice business, market research provider Pike & Fischer concludes in a new report.