Another Day, Another VOIP Plan
FCI Broadband, which provides high-speed Internet service in Toronto, plans to get into the Internet telephony market this June. 'VOIP represents a major growth opportunity for our industry and FCI Broadband expects to participate very aggressively,” CEO Nick Melatti, FCI's president and CEO.
With so many players getting into the market, how many “real” players will actually be viable in the next year or so when the cablecos such as Shaw and Rogers launch their own services. In Ontario (Canada's most populated province), I think Rogers will dominate if telephony is priced right within its bundles. Then you'll have Vonage, Primus (if iit can convince some of its 900,000 long-distance subscribers to come on board) and perhaps AOL, although it will have to reduce prices. The rest will hang on by being small, niche, low-cost player, or simply disappear.
