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.

"But it will be cable operators and other broadband providers trying to leverage their high speed data networks that will really push VoIP in the future.