The Place of VoIP Within the Telecom Industry
VoIP, or voice over internet protocol, is considered a growth market for 2009 and beyond. The very recent technology has grown exponentially and according to a report in 2008, 50% of the world’s telecom traffic is over the Internet. Furthermore, sales from the VoIP equipment alone topped the $3 million mark. Needless to say the place of VoIP within the telecom industry is well and truthfully secure with a forecast of 135 million subscribers by 2011.
Competition for this market share is now almost inevitably frantic and the top six most powerful leaders are:
- Charter Communications (Cable Company)
- Cablevision (Cable Company)
- Time Warner Cable, Inc (Cable Company)
- Comcast (Cable Company)
- Skype (Pure VoIP)
- Vonage (Pure VoIP)
It can be seen in America at least that the cable Companies have integrated VoIP within their total package and it is evident that here in the UK the traditional telecom Companies such as BT are introducing VoIP technology as a choice or addition for new telephone subscribers. This has led to the pure VoIP services like Skype and Vonage take a tumble in the market share. Whereas initially, they had a 75% total share in the industry, this has now reversed … Read the rest