Source: www.voip-news.com
Voice Over IP Weblog reports that Fring and Boingo are teaming up. But why? What’s the benefit? Read it here.
Sipcall’s new Hipsip lets you make free VoIP calls from any mobile phone. Pretty nifty. Read about it on the UK’s VoIP-News.
SIPVicious is doing some more blogging from Blackhat Europe. Read it here.
Source: www.voip-news.com
There’s a great article about VoIP statistics and Europe over at TeleGeography. It seems as those VoIP is really exploding in the European markets, with traditional telephone providers and new companies all vying for a piece of the pie.
Here’s a snippet:
Consumer VoIP subscriber growth continues to soar in Western Europe, reaching 21.7 million at mid-year 2007, up from 15.6 million only six months earlier. TeleGeography estimates that the ranks of European VoIP subscribers had grown to 28.9 million by year-end 2007.
While VoIP is often associated with competitive carriers and cable companies, many European incumbents have counter attacked by launching their own VoIP services, often with great success. France Telecom has emerged as by far the largest consumer VoIP provider in Europe, while BT, Telecom Italia, and KPN all rank among the top ten European VoIP operators.
Read more here.
Source: voipcentral.org
In its IP Telephony report, Point Topic claims that there are about 24 million people pay to access retail VoIP services. It is mainly due to cheap VoIP offerings by the service providers.
The IP Telephony report says the number of retail VoIP subscribers increased by 80 percent to 18.7 million during 2005. Obliviously, the figure does exclude users who make PC to phone calls using Skype.
Highlights of the report
Maximum number of VoIP users is from the Asia-Pacific region, however fastest growth takes place in Europe and the USA.
The number of VoIP subscribers in Europe has increased three times to touch 5.3 million mark last year.
In Europe, France has the highest VoIP adoption. It has now more than 2.8 million paying subscribers.
BTs VoIP package could not get expected number of subscribers last year but is picking up in early 2006.
In USA, VoIP is popular because of the marketing strategy. In terms of Point Topic, VoIP is described in simple terms customers understand such as digital telephone.
Source: voipcentral.org
To provide better VoIP services to the customers and commercial set ups, the leading telecommunication company AT&T has expanded its Network Integration Services in Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan.
The globalization and free market forces are compelling the companies to expand their networking. So that the companies can meet the demand of the customers and will able to create a special reorganization in the global market. Perhaps this is the basic objective behind the AT&T major expansion of its networking. The networking services of AT&T will help industries to solve communication related problems.
Mark Keiffer, the chief marketing officer-business at AT&T Operations commented,
This past year has seen impressive growth in the networking market as well as a strong need for these types of services.
With expanded networking in the major regions of the world, AT&T will able to provide cost effective services to its customers.
