Residential VoIP customers to touch 267 million by 2012
Source: voipcentral.org
I have gone through the ABI Research Report on the state of Residential VoIP in the next five years. I am not at all surprised to find out a whopping number of residential customers have lined up to adopt VoIP by 2012.
According to ABI, the global residential customers would reach 267 million in 2012, an increase of 229 million from last year.
The strong growth can be attributed entry of Cable service providers into the VoIP arena. For instance, Comcast, the US-based cable service provider has registered more than 419,000 new voice customers during fourth quarter of 2006 ending the year with 1.9 million voice customers.
The competition between cable players and telecom service providers would push forward residential VoIP in the next five years.
Interestingly, ABI has different projection for Japan. It says,
Meanwhile in Japan, the drive is not coming from the telecoms operators or even from the cable operators, but from the third-party broadband players such as SoftBank.























