February 04, 2007
VoIP Subscribers To Increase Significantly by 2012
If ABI Research is right, there'll be nearly 270 million residential VoIP subscribers around the world by 2012. Now that doesn't sound like a lot when you realize that there are already about one billion Internet users. Of course, not all of them have Internet access at home, although I don't have a figure handy. So, just my opinion, but 270M is a fairly significant number - certainly a large gain over last year's estimate of nearly 40 million subscribers.
Now VoIP might have been declared having gone mainstream, but this suggests that VoIP isn't going to replace PSTN systems anytime soon. As has been mentioned before, there's over 100 years of tradition to replace. Not everyone is comfortable making calls over their computer, though VoIP Wi-Fi phones seem to be increasing in at availability - and possibly sales.
So now I'm thinking that instead of the residential segment of VoIP subscribers leading the charge, it might actually be the business segment.
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