VoIP services market nears $50 billion mark; breakout year

ANALYST NOTE "The VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service market weathered the economic turmoil of the last couple of years, and, with increasing customer adoption, reached $49.8 billion in 2010. During the residential services segment remains the largest of the market at 69% of total revenue, business VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services are growing at faster rates; a notable example: SIP trunking had a breakout year with 143% revenue growth in 2010," notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and IMS at Infonetics Technology.

REPORT SYNOPSIS Infonetics' VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers report, published twice per year, features an IP Centrex Provider Tracker and provides worldwide and regional market size, forecasts, and analysis of residential/SOHO VoIP services, business VoIP and UC services, and VoIP subscribers. Business voice services tracked include managed IP PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) services, hosted VoIP and unified communication services, and IP connectivity services. Regions tracked include North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Central and Latin America.

Consumer VoIP subscriber market share is provided for AT&T, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Embratel NetFone, France Télécom, KDDI, LG Dacom, LibertyGlobal, NTT, ONO, Optus, Rogers, SFR, SK Broadband, SoftBank, Tele2 Netherlands, Telecom Italia, Time Warner Cable, Vonage, and many others.

The service includes two Business VoIP Service Provider Scorecards: one scorecard that analyzes and ranks the top 10 IP Centrex and top 10 IP connectivity service providers in North America, published May 4, and one scorecard that analyzes and ranks the top 10 IP Centrex service providers in EMEA, published Aug. 4.

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