As VoIP Phones Get Ever Cooler More People Adopting Them
A new study from research firm IDC suggests that the Japanese are increasingly taking to VoIP services such as Vonage VoIP, and that in particular VoIP phones are gaining popularity in the land of the rising sun.
“the extent to which Japanese customers are putting VoIP phones to work on a day-to-day basis has risen substantially” in recent years IDC said.
During the 2009 and 2010 calendar year IDC says Japanese users of services such as Vonage VoIP found and increasingly varied number of uses for their IP phones, which go beyond simply cutting the price of the call.
“Voice, video and Web conferencing via IP telephony reached a 27.8 percent market penetration, up 8.6 percentage points year-on-year,” according to the report.
The report from IDC found that whilst Japanese investment in VoIP has remained constant, with a marginal increase, the number of features that are being adopted is quite different and rapidly increasing.
According to Telappliant officials, VoIP phones, with wireless handsets often supplied with a charging dock, “could be charged without the need for a direct circuit connection between the handset and the mains.”
Wireless communications analyst Tina Teng was quoted by the Telappliant blog as saying that early mobile phones represent early adoption of technology:
“which aims to resolve the age-old issue of tangled wires trailing from mains sockets. Mobile phones will contribute the largest share of revenue to wireless charging.”
“presence notification, business application collaboration and unified messaging” are on the uptake from 2008.
Presence notification is one of the coolest features of IP phones which lets you indicate to other users when you are at your desk, and works in the same way one would express their availability on an Instant Messaging platform. If you do not want others to know, then simply turn it off.
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Global Fixed Line Market For VoIP Could Generate As Much As $40 billion a year by 2015
VoIP service providers such as Vonage VoIP and Skype now have a combined 120 million subscribers globally, and according to market research firm Point Topic, that growth looks set to remain torrid, and astonishingly accelerate, with the VoIP market predicted to become a US$40 billion market by 2015.
According to Point Topic’s analysis, the growth rate of the global market for VoIP during 2010 was 12.6%, which suggests that there is still plenty of room for further growth.
“The growth of VoIP has been bumpy but shows signs of acceleration,” said John Bosnell, Senior Analyst at Point Topic. “VoIP has all the hallmarks of a classic substitution commodity. This is where customers look at the service that is delivered by a new product and decide that it meets, or exceeds, the service they are currently receiving and when it is appropriately priced they will switch from one to the other.”
Consumers and businesses are switching from traditional telephone services into VoIP service providers such as Vonage VoIP, who offer telecom services and at a very attractive price.
“France has been something of a test bed for VoIP. Driven by an active supplier base that has made VoIP available to a large percentage of the population over the last decade, the providers have been rewarded with significant take-up,” added Bosnell.
The result has been a large scale and rapid shift into VoIP and away from PSTN in France, with nearly 50% of telecom traffic now originating from a VoIP telephone which uses a service like Vonage VoIP .
The scale of the opportunity
The entire broadband market, every existing customer, and every potential customer could ultimately end up substituting traditional PTSN for VoIP service providers such as Vonage VoIP.
“We expect there to be over three quarters of a billion fixed line broadband subscribers by the end of 2015, in theory all of them are targets for VoIP,” said Bosnell.
However all projections about the size and value of the markets should be treated with a degree of caution. At this stage in the cycle there are a number of variables used in models that could easily be inaccurate and could result in projections being off by a significant margin.
An example of this could be the preference for customers to substitute into mobile rather than VoIP and away from fixed line all together.
Bosnell added: “Given a number of assumptions, relatively consistent ARPU, regulatory easement, a cautious set of projections and so on, we expect the global fixed line VoIP market to be generating at least $40 billion a year in five years’ time.”
“It is highly fragmented and generally served by companies who don’t or won’t report regular statistics and revenues. However Skype, the market leader, has had considerable publicity recently and does report some numbers. From these we estimate that there are more internet telephony than VoIP users, with Skype alone accounting for almost 150 million regular callers,” said Bosnell.
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VoIP A Top Ten Thriving Industry Reports The Wall Street Journal
So the economy being in terrible shape is not particularly breaking news, what I did find interesting however is that there are certain areas of the economy which rather than stinking, actually seem to smell quite sweet according to research from IBISWorld USA, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal in a piece they wrote called “The Top Ten Thriving Industries”
What can come as no shock to anyone is that eight of those top ten industries are in technology, with the VoIP industry including service providers such as Vonage VoIP experiencing an eye popping 194 per cent growth in revenue during the decade that started in 2000 and ended in 2010.
The projection for VoIP as an industry and service providers such as Vonage VoIP is rosy, and the industry is expected to grow 17.4 per cent per annum between 2010 to 2016.
So if the VoIP industry and service providers such as Vonage VoIP hitting all the right notes including the top spot as most thriving industry in the economy, the obvious question is whom or what is its analogue, and takes the top spot in a list of the “ Top 10 Dying Industries” compiled once more by IBISWorld and once again reported by the WSJ.
Wired telecom providers top that dubious lists, with many being pushed to extinction in large part by VoIP service providers like
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Services Like Vonage Transform The Consumer Perception Of VoIP
The latest survey by Pew Research suggesting that nearly a quarter of all American internet users make use of VoIP services like Vonage VoIP to make telephone calls has set the blogosphere ablaze.
The figure dramatically increased from the previous year, after Pew reworded its question and asked respondents whether they had used a service such as Skype or Vonage VoIP.
The results of the survey are indicative of a few things regarding what is going on in the world of VoIP. Like other technologies before it, the acronym is now giving way to the big brand names, which is a good thing. VoIP has never been the most pleasant sounding word out there, nor one that is associated with a promising revolutionary technology, more importantly it’s not a word that easily rolls of the tongues of the American public.
Vonage VoIP and Skype have fixed all of that with punchy brand names that easily transform into verbs. The public in America are now forgetting VoIP the technology, which has an unfair reputation for poor quality, an instead are embracing VoIP the service, which they know through brand names such as Vonage VoIP and Skype, that are associated with being inexpensive and cool.
The results of the survey also suggest that VoIP seems to have moved past a difficult stage of its market development, a period where traditional telecom’s companies were more interested in trying to sue Vonage VoIP into an early grave rather than developing their own competing VoIP offerings.
For a long time, during the middle and towards the end of the previous decade, the market for VoIP was over crowded and far too fragmented. Many players who showed promise faded into obscurity or died. Since then the VoIP market has become more integrated, with unified communications on the business front, and has become more mobile overall. In fact, in another few years, we may think of VoIP primarily as a mobile application.
A technology that to begin with faced many issues and was almost eliminated by traditional telecom’s companies has survived its most difficult period and become a successful service.
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Dutch Proposal Mandating Net Neutrality Means Mobile Consumers Can Use Vonage VoIP At No Extra Cost
A new proposal to modify Dutch laws, which would result in mobile phone service providers to charge additional fees to consumers who use VoIP services such as Vonage VoIP or web based instant messaging may deal a large blow to incumbent Royal KPN, which has faced an onslaught because of the growing popularity of such applications.
Maxime Verhagen, the Netherlands economic minister is proposing to change his countries telecommunications law, because whilst the government believes it is perfectly fine for mobile phone and internet service providers to charge higher for faster speeds and bigger data limits, it also feels that additional charges for voice of internet protocol services such as Vonage VoIP are unreasonable.
The ministry says it will examine the existing law and propose changes, which it says will have to be approved by parliament in the following weeks. The proposal should it be adopted means that the Netherlands would be amongst the first countries in the world to statutorily mandate net neutrality.
The changes to telecommunications laws in the fifth largest economy of the Eurozone will have a significant impact on incumbent telco and form state owned monopoly KPN, which is trying to raise its prices at a time when revenue from mobile phone services declined 8.1% during the quarter, a fall which the company blames on the growing use of VoIP services such as Vonage VoIP and Skype, as well as WhatsApp instead of traditional text messages.
KPN controls approximately 49% of the Telecom market in the Netherlands, and in response to falling revenue, says it wants to charge higher prices for VoIP, but not for WhatsApp. The company planned the move after issuing a profit warning in April.
Vodafone, which controls 27% of the market also want to impose additional fees for customers using Vonage VoIP or Skype on their smartphones, whilst T-Mobile owned by German incumbent Deutsche Telekom AG and is the smallest player in the market with 24 per cent market share prohibits its customers altogether from using such services under its terms and conditions.
All three mobile network providers said it was too early to comment on the proposed new law.
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Vonage VoiP Becoming Increasingly Popular
Market research firm Pew Internet has released a report which suggests that nearly a quarter of all internet users in America have made phone calls using VoIP services.
This is a dramatic shift from 2004, when the same number said they were merely aware it was possible to use the internet to make telephone calls, with the majority admitting that they had never tried to use a service likeVonage VoIP
Fast forward to this year, and Pew Internet’s 2011 report now suggests that as much as 19 per cent of the entire US adult population, or nearly a quarter of all adult internet users in America are making at least some of their calls over the internet.
The popularity of VoIP services like has surged for a number of reasons, the main one being that they are either completely free of charge, or at the very least, much cheaper than placing long distance calls on traditional phone company networks. Increasingly offices have begun to exploit VoIP for their phone and video conferencing requirements, and families have begun using VoIP providers such as they seek to reduce their monthly phone bill.
According to the study in 2011, on any given day, nearly five per cent of American internet users place phone calls using VoIP. Smart-phones are also playing a large part in the increase.
“In the current survey, we found that 7% of cell phone owners had participated in video calls or online chats with their handheld device,” said Pew.
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