Maybe the biggest untapped market for VoIP is Africa. China may have more people, but the history and political geography of Africa is far more complex. There's a report out this week that seems to give a pretty complete picture of the African market, including the size and impact of the grey market, VoIP adoption by business, and the changing regulatory attitude. The findings: grey marketeers tend to be young, tech-savvy and entrepreneurial; the countries that have legalized VoIP have forced incumbent telcos into fixed-wireless and triple-play offerings; telcos themselves are turning to IP trunking to save money and offer new services; and most of the countries that ban VoIP have done so to protect legacy telcos. In other words, when it comes to VoIP, the African market behaves pretty much like every other market.
For more information about the African VoIP market:
- read this article [1] from AllAfrica
Links:
[1] http://allafrica.com/stories/200702120496.html