Vonage has crossed one million customers, it made this announcement on the 6th of September, 2005. The company is based in Edison, N.J and its achievement is an indicator of the rate at which the VoIP industry has grown. Skype Technologies, based in Luxembourg also has over a million subscribers but a majority of them subscribe only to SkypeOut, which is a service that enables calls to be made by using Skype. In order to receive calls, customers have to purchase SkypeIn. pcmag reports:
Both Cox and Comcast said they each have more than 1 million phone subscribers, but the vast majority still use a network of circuit switches rather than VOIP technology. Time Warner Cable, which uses VOIP exclusively, has about 614,000 subscribers. Cablevision has about 250,000 VOIP subscribers.
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