State of the VoIP Market

Where is VoIP in 2007? Rapidly gaining consumer acceptance. Increasing reliability to attract holdout business users. VoIP is already big business in business, but it's still not making money in the consumer market despite changing dramatically and changing telecom with it. Here’s an overview of the state of VoIP in early 2007.

Size

The VoIP market is sufficiently fragmented that it’s tough to find reliable numbers for its size and growth rate.

Rich Tehrani estimates the size of the U.S. consumer VoIP market at around $1.2 billion today, based on 4–5 million users paying an average of $25/month for various VoIP services,  but while user numbers will increase, Tehrani thinks voice itself will become commoditized. That said, in September 2006, analyst firm Analysys predicted that cellular VoIP revenues would surpass those of fixed-line VoIP by 2012, generating some $25.9 billion in the U.S. and Europe.

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