Source: www.voip-news.com
The French are known for their fabulous fashion and cool demeanor. So what does it say that they are hot on the VoIP ticket? Is VoIP en vogue?
About 20 percent of all phone lines in France are now VoIP lines, according to data from Arcep. And, about 64 percent of VoIP users use VoIP as their main fixed line.
See, you too can be cool like the French. Maybe.
Source: andyabramson.blogs.com
I spend a lot of time in France and one of my peeves has been the lack of PrePaid data rates.
Well, not any more. Now with Orange France for 9 Euros a month you can get some type of pre-paid data. This is a boon for me, as I’m really loving my Nokia E90 as an alternative to my Blackberry Curve. As a matter of fact, the last two weeks I used the E90 more than the Berry in the UK and Spain.
Now with this new Orange plan I can get more use out of the E90 and N95’s, and upload those famed coffee cup photos that’s I’ve been neglecting to do (more out of respect for someone who had to recently give up coffee)
Pre-Paid data is the future, especially for travelers and tourists who want to stay connected.
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.
