VoIP is here to stay

Latest figures from TeleGeography [1] show just how VoIP, or digital voice as the cable companies like to call it, have become part of the U.S. marketplace. Already more than 10 percent of American households have abandoned their poor old telephone and it is predicted that by 2011 VoIP will be in 20 percent, or 23 million homes.

The numbers also show how after a slow start it is the cable players who are capturing most of the growth, as the pure play VoIP companies struggle from a standing start and predictable high customer acquisition costs.

This graph tells the story:

There is an elegant summary of the takeaways for this data by Senaka Balasuriya at his Tech Untangled [2] blog. In summary, Comcast has exploded to become the market leader with more than 3 million voice customers. Together with Time Warner and Cablevision and several smaller operators, cable now commands almost three quarters of the VoIP network market or more than 8 million subscribers--double the number at the same time last year. This does not include the PC to PC VoIP market.

For More:
-Five reasons why VoIP providers will go broke Blog [3]
-VOIP grows despite quality complaints Report [4] 

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