VoIP subscribers top 100million world wide
Posted by Cloud Net on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 @ 04:37 AM
The latest analysis from analysis company Point Topic reveals that by the end of September 2009 VoIP subscriptions had grown by 15% in the first 3 quarters of the year to pass the 100 million milestone.
Top countries
Top 10 Countries - VoIP subscribers (not softclient*)
1 USA-22,704,900
2 Japan-21,368,000
3 France-16,125,000
4 Germany-8,100,000
5 China-5,000,000
6 South Korea-4,846,839
7 Italy-4,187,000
8 Canada-3,607,318
9 Netherlands-3,446,400
10 UK-2,950,000
"It's competition that's forced the pace in France and with a combination of an enthusiastic set of suppliers, cost effective bundles, appropriate regulation and a developing infrastructure the same could be seen in any market no matter how entrenched the incumbents. Telcos will have to keep developing their own IP voice offerings to meet the challenge" says John Bosnell, Senior Analyst at Point Topic.
We have previously identified VoIP as being the best performing industry of the last decade world wide and it continues to perform strongly. Initially there were quality issue with VoIP and this together with inertia has mean that VoIP has taken longer to happen than analysts originally expected.
However conditions have now come together so that company's should be buying into hosted VoIP not only for the cost savings but also because of the huge functionality provided. It is no longer a question of if a company should adopt a communications strategy based on hosted VoIP but when.
This analysis is taken from Point Topic's latest update to the Broadband Money Makers report IP Telephony.
*Point Topic includes only verifiable IP-based telephone subscriptions in these statistics. Services like Skype which are softclient (ie originating on the PC) and which do not report user numbers but only ‘‘minutes'' of calls are excluded