Ten percent of VoIP carriers die in their first year

In a dynamic market, not all players make it, and VoIP is nothing if not dynamic. By one count, about 10 percent of all service providers in the world don't make it through the first year. And size is no guarantee: remember, AOL's Talk Plus cratered after less than a year. In the "wish-I'd-thought-of-this" category comes this global census of VoIP players. There are almost 900 on the list, 85 of them among the departed. Most likely, neither the Rollcall of the Dead nor the List of the Living is canonical, but this is a pretty good start--and we bet that the 10 percent guideline will wind up being a pretty good rule of thumb until some big fish starts rolling up the little ones.

For more information about the VoIP Dead Zone:
- read this article from myVoipProvider.com