Global fixed line VoIP market set to generate $40 billion a year by 2015
VoIP substitutions winning voice market share – with room for more
Voice over IP now has over 120 million subscribers worldwide, according to the latest analysis from Point Topic, and its growth looks set to accelerate as predictions indicate a $40 billion annual VoIP market by 2015.
Point Topic’s data revealed a global growth in VoIP of 12.6% during 2010 and shows that there is plenty of headroom left for VoIP * around the world.
“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.”
Referring to the above, for example, consumers are switching from the standard telephone system to an end to end IP service that provides voice services at a very attractive cost and adds other possibilities.
“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 rapid shift away from PSTN. In France by 2010, over 50% of telephony traffic originating on fixed networks was started on a VoIP phone.
The scale of the opportunity
The whole broadband market and all its consumers are potential customers, and there is good evidence that consumers see VoIP as a superior substitute for traditional PSTN calls.
“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.
Any projections about the size and value of the VoIP market should be treated with caution however, according to Point Topic. At this stage in the development of a market there are so many variables that forecasting models can easily be off by a significant margin. For example, an increasing number of subscribers are doing without a fixed line telephone service at all, relying instead on mobile.
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.”
The extended opportunity
Point Topic’s analysis on VoIP has so far focused on fixed line services, however Internet telephony, where services like Skype are active, is a more enigmatic market.
“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.
However revenue generated is much lower. At the end of 2010 it had around 9 million paying users generating $8 a month on average. Again it is the potential size of the cake that makes for some attractive opportunities.
“If Skype continues to grow as it has been and manages to keep its ARPU at the current level then it will be generating in the region of $2 billion a year by the start of 2016. If you work hard and manage to marry your internet telephony service with a major mobile device manufacturer and solve any number of technical and regulatory issues, the market could really explode,” concluded Bosnell.
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Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: ARPU, IP, Point Topic, PSTN
Selecting a Business Voip Provider
In earlier articles we have looked at the importance of a voip provider’s core and access networks in delivering a high quality and reliable telephony service. This article will focus on the telephony services and features that a voip provider delivers.
One of the key advantages of using a hosted telephony service is that it removes the requirement of installing and maintaining complicated equipment. Most small offices do not have in house IT and Telecoms technical expertise so how do these organisations manage adds moves and changes to their telecoms set up. With a business telephone system (PBX) this must be managed through a support contract with a reseller which is often expensive and usually quite slow to react. For example if an office wanted to change the call routing of a particular telephone number this would have to be dealt with by raising a support ticket with the maintainer. The response times for these requests is at best hours and can sometimes take days. A good hosted IP telephony service will have a management portal that empowers non technical staff (typically office managers) to make changes to their telephony service in real time using a web portal. The management portal should be simple and easy to use with clear navigation and help menus and should allow for all aspects of the service to be managed. This includes the adding of users, changing of user details, setting up call routing, voicemails and auto-attendants to name just a few. Business Voip provider Voxalis has a very easy to use admin portal developed specifically for non technical people to use. Using the admin portal allows a business to react quickly to change and not be at the mercy of a support contract.
Voxalis also has a user management portal that allows standard users to make changes to the set up of their phone such as programming keys, setting up voicemail, and personal call routing. By empowering employees with the user portal a business can be sure that its staff members are getting the most of the technology at their disposal. The user portal also removes the workload from office administrators and small IT departments.
A good hosted IP telephony service will have a management portal that empowers non technical staff (typically office managers) to make changes to their telephony service in real time using a web portal. The management portal should be simple and easy to use with clear navigation and help menus and should allow for all aspects of the service to be managed. This includes the adding of users, changing of user details, setting up call routing, voicemails and auto-attendants to name just a few. Business Voip provider Voxalis has a very easy to use admin portal developed specifically for non technical people to use. Using the admin portal allows a business to react quickly to change and not be at the mercy of a support contract.
Voxalis also has a user management portal that allows standard users to make changes to the set up of their phone such as programming keys, setting up voicemail, and personal call routing. By empowering employees with the user portal a business can be sure that its staff members are getting the most of the technology at their disposal. The user portal also removes the workload from office administrators and small IT departments.
From the above we can see that even before evaluating the telephony features that a voip providers have to offer there are questions that need answering about their network set up. Once these have been satisfied a shortlist of voip providers can be produced and an evaluation of the telephony features can begin.
Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: Business Voip, IP, IT, PBX
Hosted Voip SolutionsIdeal Communication Network for Homes and Offices
VoIP solutions use a broadband Internet connection for telephone communications and are well suited for small offices and homes to have a superior quality of audio transmission.
VoIp solutions are flexible and effective. The best part is that VoIP users can call people who use a normal telephone line or a VoIP connection. Many a time, all you need to do is to use their original phone hooked to a modem that makes it compatible with the IP connection. VoIP just needs a fast Internet connection for long distance communication. It has made long distance phone calls cheaper, be it anywhere in the world.
Hosted VoIP services are well suited for small and medium companies that do not own their own PBX. This service has many useful features and the monthly tariff is lower than the standard telephone service.
A hosted VoIP service can be used to connect companies with many small branches, remote offices, or work from home employees. Apart from making calls, the customers get many useful features like voice message retrieval from email, free PC to PC calling and high quality conference calling among others. VoIP is easy to install and operate and additional lines can be added at any time and the main office network is connected to the home office through a VoIP router.
The emergence of technologies like Softswitch has revolutionized this segment. Softswitch enables connectivity between the Internet, wireless networks, cable networks and conventional telephony network, to form a converged network.
There are many VoIP reseller programs online, which enables cheap and easy communication with your near and dear ones at any part of the world. The VoIP resellers connect end users with best VoIP providers and provide cheap calling plans to fulfill the requirements of users.
Typically large offices will have a PBX, (public branch exchange system) to attend and transferring calls. These are expensive and needs regular maintenance, which makes it unviable to small and medium organizations and that is what makes the hosted PBX that do not require any investment in equipment quite popular among small and medium business entities. In a hosted PBX, when a call comes into your business’s number it is routed to the host’s PBX system, where the call is answered and the automated attendant offers options to the caller. Based on their choice, the call is sent to voicemail or forwarded to the specified number by the host’s PBX.
VoIP solutions not only handle the network of your communications but also help the users to make international calls at a fraction of the conventional calls. VoIP solutions have revolutionized the world of telecommunications by offering quality and speedy transmission for the users.
We are the best Callback Service, Calling Cards, IP Telephony and Mobile Dialer Solutions Provider company whose applications and mobile client software enables you to use your cell phone to make Cheap International Calls over Internet.
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Email : tonybh@dialnation.com, johnmichaels@dialnation.com, matrobinson@dialnation.com, helencarol@dialnation.com, routes@dialnation.com www.dialnation.com Small Business VoIP Solutions With the world of business changing faster than ever, small businesses in the UK who adopt a VoIP solution can steal a step on their national and international competitors. There are many benefits to be found with IP telephony, but the biggest attraction with a business VoIP solution is the cost savings that can be made. In this post we’re going to explore what the growing Dialnation needs in terms of telephony, what benefits are attained by switching to a VoIP solution and who the best business VoIP providers are in the UK. Considering that business is conducted across borders, small businesses need a solution that is as flexible and extensible as possible. Gone are the days when small businesses should be content with a standard landline and extension per desk. Small businesses do not have to pay the extortionate rates that are associated with a traditional setup.
Categories: VOIP Videos Tags: IP, UK
Nova Incepta Ramps Up Its Carrier Networks And VoIP Expertise As New Consultants Join Growing Team
Two new senior professionals from the telecom operator world have joined Nova Incepta’s growing team of associate consultants as the company seeks to strengthen its expertise in advising telecoms operators on their networking and convergence options.
Jerry Rabast and Chris Petra are both veterans of the telco world with many years of experience working for a number of operators. They both have significant experience in the specification, design, build and operation of telecoms operators’ networks covering both mobile and fixed line. Jerry worked previously as the CTO of a major telecoms operator and led a modernisation programme that included next generation networks, DWDM transport systems and 3G mobile networks. Chris is an architecture specialist and has been involved in the evolution of the legacy Public Switched Telecommunications Network from analogue to digital to IP based “Next Generation Network” architecture, supporting both legacy PSTN/ISDN services and SIP based IP multimedia services.
Jerry and Chris are joining a growing team of experts who together deliver a comprehensive range of services to the telecoms industry. Nova Incepta operates globally to provide people and skills for telecoms projects world-wide. The company delivers a proven range of engineering, operations, regulatory and sales consultancy services to the telecoms industry, in areas such as network transformation, number portability, repairs, network interconnect, optimisation and security, legacy technology support and training & education.
Managing Director, Richard Kendall, said: “Telecoms operators are under extreme pressure to cut their costs and yet deliver ever-improving services and more bandwidth. We make it our business to have the right people in place to complement our customers’ in-house skills by taking on a highly skilled and experienced professional to help with the change and migration for a limited period. Chris and Jerry have worked in these environments and are familiar with the concerns and drivers that telcos face. They can bring real tangible benefit to programmes of changing network architecture, convergence and VoIP programmes .”
Jerry Rabast – expert in carrier networks
Jerry has over 30 years’ experience in the field of telecommunications and has held roles as CTO at Jersey Telecom and more recently Marathon Telecom. He was involved in the creation of an IP backbone using a new “Liberty” submarine cable from Guernsey to the UK including an upgrade to the transmission capacity via DWDM on Jersey and also providing an additional link through France to London. He also worked on Jersey Telecom’s specification and procurement by competitive tender of a fixed Next Generation Network, to replace existing exchanges and broadband infra-structure. This included ADSL2+ for integration to an IP core and SIP/VoIP technology for deployment as IP-Centrex and interconnect, amongst many other projects.
Chris Petra – architecture specialist in telco networks
Chris has over 30 years’ experience in the field of telecommunications, holding a number of senior technology-based roles at Jersey Telecom, including Manager of Core Networks, Technology & Planning Division, Shared Services. Chris has successfully utilised his skills in the evolution of the legacy Public Switched Telecommunications Network from analogue to digital to IP-based “Next Generation Network” architecture, supporting both legacy PSTN/ISDN services and SIP based IP multimedia services. In addition, the implementation of a GSM-based Public Land Mobile Network and its evolution from 2G to 3G to 2G/3G IP-based call server architecture, paving the way for a move to 4G/LTE technology.
Nova Incepta is a telecoms engineering consultancy that operates globally to provide people and skills for telecoms projects. The company delivers a proven range of engineering, operations, regulatory and sales consultancy services to the telecoms industry, in areas such as network transformation, network interconnect, optimisation and security, legacy technology support and training & education.
Established in 2006, Nova Incepta provides an answer to the huge demand for knowledge and skills in Next Generation Architecture (NGA), TDM to IP migration, and interim TDM sustain. The company operates primarily in public fixed and mobile networks, and very large enterprises – typically government, utilities and transport organisations. Headquartered in London the company has operations in Central Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.
Categories: VOIP Articles Tags: IP, Jersey Telecom, Next Generation Network, Nova Incepta
Hide IP address for Nokia E72?
SOHAIL Asked: Hide IP address for Nokia E72?
RespectedReader
Can wesee ip address of mobile and how to hide (Change ) our original ip.
i have Nokia E72 . i need IP changer software for my mobile. ………
why i need this software because inour country (Oman) (Gulf country ) all voip are block like google talk voice chat, yahoo voice chat and so many other is block due to solutionof this problem i think that only the way to change our IP then i think we can use this voip or voice chats.
pls tell me any software for this purpose .
thanks to read my problem …
Answers:
Auntie Mame Answered:
Changing / hiding your IP will not help as all the IPs that you can possibly use are within your country and they all go through the same checkpoint that blocks what you want.
Changing / hiding your IP will not help as all the IPs that you can possibly use are within your country and they all go through the same checkpoint that blocks what you want.
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Categories: VOIP Questions Tags: IP, Nokia E72, Oman Gulf