September 20, 2004
Rapid Business Migration to VoIP
According to a new report by IDATE, 40% of all business telephone lines will be voice over internet protocol (VoIP) or telephony over internet protocol (ToIP) in 2009, a huge increase from a 2.5% share in 2003.
From eMarketer:
Many telecoms have already announced plans to migrate classic TDM networks to IP networks. NTT has committed to full IP migration (Global V2oIP), and BT is rolling out its 21CN project. For its part, Telecom Italia deployed a packet-based voice transport infrastructure for international traffic in late 2003. The reasons behind these migrations are: a single network to manage, lower price of IP routers, lower administration and maintenance costs, demand from customers for convergent services and the ability to launch new services.
Read more: VoIP Goes Big Business
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