Thursday, January 4, 2007

Nine Million VoIP Households

In-Stat says more than nine million households have at least one active VoIP user.
The top five facilities-based services used by households in the United States are Vonage (1.7 million households), Time Warner Digital Phone (1.6 million households), Comcast Digital Voice (1.3 million households), Cablevision/Optimum Voice (1.1 million households) and Cox Digital Phone (420,000 households.

The top five client-based VOIP service providers used by U.S. households are Skype (2.1 million households), MSN (1.1 million households), Yahoo Messenger with Voice (1 million households), Google Talk (658,000 households) and AOL Phoneline (266,000 households).

Price still remains the driver in the consumer market, though some marketwatchers are calling 2007 the "year of VoIP apps," at least in the enterprise space. That prediction probably will prove to be off the mark in the sense that all such "year of the..." proclamations are. In 2006 the International Consumer Electronics Show proclaimed last year "the year of the digital connected home". Guess what. So is this year.

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