* Infonetics Research study indicates that VoIP adoption will continue to rise over the next few years
Last week, Infonetics Research announced their latest projections for VoIP deployments in North America. In a release, the company offered some highlights of the complete study. According to their statement, the study sample “included in-depth interviews with 240…organizations that use VoIP products and/or services now or will by 2007, as well as 450 shorter interviews to determine VoIP adoption rates, and 150 exit interviews to determine why organizations are not deploying VoIP.”
Their study confirms what we’ve been asserting for quite some time – VoIP is not a question of if but when. Infonetics estimates that “almost half of small and two-thirds of large organizations in North America will be using VoIP products and services by 2010.”
In their statement they noted:
* 36% of large, 23% of medium, and 14% of small North American organizations interviewed were already using VoIP products and services in 2005.
* VoIP adoption will triple by 2010 among small organizations in North America.
* The top drivers for deploying VoIP are having an integrated phone system across multiple locations, scalability, operational cost savings, and converging voice and data networks.
* Next to basic voice, money saving long-distance/toll bypass is the highest ranked application for VoIP.
* The percent of users at respondent sites accessing VoIP over wireless LANs grows from 5% in 2006 to 20% in 2008.
Additional details can be found here.
