Study: International callers making more VoIP calls than traditional calls

Mobile VoIP company Rebtel and Harris Interactive conducted a survey of adults in the U.S. and how they make international calls. The results have pretty interesting indications for the VoIP industry. One in four adults in the U.S. make international calls and spend an average of $34 a month on those calls. That's a $1.98 billion a month industry!

The majority of callers use landlines with 42 percent using traditional phone service and 12 percent using a VoIP service. Nine percent make mobile VoIP calls using an app. About 25 percent of international callers use a computer and VoIP software to make calls. Another 20 percent use calling cards.

"The international calling industry for calling from the U.S. abroad is now estimated at a $23.8 billion market," said Andreas Bernstrom, CEO of Rebtel. "Over the next few years we believe this will shift in a dramatic way, to low cost calling solutions on mobile phones away from the landline."

Rebtel, of course, is focusing on the mobile VoIP side of things, but looking at the data, it is exciting news for our whole industry. Add the users making calls on regular VoIP to the users taking advantage of mobile VoIP apps and computer VoIP software and you are already seeing the many variations of VoIP being used more than traditional landline.

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