In Europe, Fixed Network Voice-over-Broadband Grows 400%

In the fourth quarter of 2011, voice over broadband apps accounted for 52 percent of all fixed access traffic, compared to 47 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, Analysys Mason says.


The growth has been triggered, in large part, by tariff reductions for mobile calls, according to  Analysys Mason. The consequence is that the volume of fixed network calls made to mobile devices has skyrocketed. 

So at least in Europe, voice usage on the fixed networks are, in many cases, lead by broadband voice, not use of the public switched telephone network. That appears not to be the case in other regions, though.