Infonetics: SIP trunking to grow at 89%, hosted UC hot

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its biannual "VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers" report. The report now tracks SIP trunking, IP integrated access, and hosted UC in addition to residential VoIP, VoIP VPN/IP access, IP Centrex and managed IP PBX - and it predicts some very hot numbers over the next five years.  

SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate from 2008 to 2013 - a number which should make numerous service providers and IP PBX vendors happy. In addition, hosted UC services are expected to "take off," with worldwide revenue doubling over the next four years. Business VoIP service revenue growth outpaced residential VoIP revenue growth in 2008, but residential VoIP services make up the bulk of VoIP service revenue. Managed IP PBX and hosted IP Centrex/hosted UC revenue accounted for nearly 75 percent of all business VoIP service revenue.

Demand for both residential and business VoIP services continues to grow, with the VoIP services market logging $30.8 billion in revenue for growth of 33 percent in 2008. In the first three months of 2009, service providers experienced an average of 40 to 50 percent year-over-year growth for IP Centrex, so the demand for outsourcing and managed solutions remains "healthy."

One highlight of the report suggests that a combination of deregulation and plunging prices makes PC-based services such as Skype "irrelevant," with prices for phone calls in France running around $0.02 per minute for fixed-to-fixed line calls worldwide.

For more:
- Infonetics trumpets its latest report. Release [1]

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