6 September 2006

Voice over IP service providers have something more to remind them of summer than sand in their pockets: Increased revenues and a strong demand for next-generation voice services.

Revenues generated by next-generation voice and intelligent IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) equipment is expected to double through 2009, rising from roughly $2.5 billion last year to $5.8 billion, according to the latest Infonetics Research report.

Overall, the IP voice market is up about 6 percent in the second quarter of 2006, recovering from a similar decline in the first quarter of the year before, noted Infonetics.