VoIP Continues to Grow

Infonetics has a new report out and VoIP Continues to grow: * Worldwide revenue from residential hosted VoIP services jumped 68% between 2005 and 2006; managed IP PBX service revenue grew 45% * The number of worldwide residential/SOHO VoIP subscribers nearly doubled between 2005 and 2006, to 46.5 million, 46% of which are in Asia Pacific * 71% of worldwide VoIP service revenue came from residential/SOHO customers in 2006, 29% from business customers; revenue from both residential and business customers will increase steadily at least through 2010 * SoftBank is the world’s largest VoIP service provider with 18% subscriber market share, followed (in order) by NTT, Vonage, France Télécom, and Time Warner Cable