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VOIP to Boom: IDC
By Mark Evans | April 5, 2005
Another day, another bullish study on VOIP. According to IDC, the number of U.S. households with VoIP will jump nine-fold to 27 million by 2009. My biggest issue with forecasts if I have idea what I'm doing tomorrow, let alone four years from now. IDC clearly believes that all the hurdles facing VOIP adoption that I mentioned in a posting earlier today will disappear - thereby allowing VOIP to PSTN phones in 15% to 20% of U.S. homes. In Canada, Seaboard Group is looking for the VOIP residential market to hit about 3.3 million households in 2009 from 250,000 this year. Before anyone gets carried away with VOIP subscriber growth, let's see how things present themselves this year when most of the major cablecos in North America get into the game.
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