55M VoIP Customers by '09
January 31st, 2006 Posted in Main Page, VOIP Services, Competition
The number consumer VoIP subscribers is expected to more than triple to 55 million by 2009 from 15 million in 2005, according to InStat. Oddly enough, the research firm believes VoIP still had a low profile among consumers last year, even though the market grew by 62%. InStat said the expected growth will be driven by competition in the broadband and new entrants such as Google and eBay. In another study, Waterloo, Ont.-based Sandvine found that 53% of VoIP minutes in North America were service provider-branded (cablecos, carriers) while Vonage had 21.% market share and Skype 14.4%. In Europe, 51.2% of minutes with service provider-branded while Skype had 45% share.
