VoIP Adoption Escalates in the US

Consumers embracing VoIP services is reported to be growing at an aggressive rate by the Yankee Group on July 30. Ever since 2006, the popularity for VoIP services have been mounting at a rate of 125% and has so far reached to an outstanding number of 9 million subscribers. The cable MSOs and the broadband VoIP providers play the important role in the maintenance of the growing extensive consumer VoIP market.

The very latest Yankee Group’s US Consumer VoIP Subscriber Forecast of 2007 reveals that that the service had successfully achieved the acceptance of 9% of the US households, which have increased by 4% than the previous year. VoIP services are attaining popularity due to not only being equivalent to residential phones but also for other facilities that come with it, such as web-based advertisements, website assistance and other click-to-call solutions.

Furthermore, the demand for cheap calling connectivity all over the world by the customers has led to the requirement for mobile VoIP. It is expected that the VoIP dual-mode mobile phone subscription will increase from 2006 record of 913,000 to 22 million by the year of 2011.

From: lightreading