24 August 2006

Subscribers to VoIP services increased by 83 per cent last year, new figures
reveal.

Worldwide retail VoIP subscribers jumped from 10.3 million at the beginning
of 2005 to over 18.7 million by the end of the year, according to broadband
analyst

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The company also estimated that the number of people who paid for PC-to-phone
calls during 2005 was over 4.7 million.