Incumbents and regulators – from USA to Bangladesh – wanted to block it. They have failed miserably as VoIP has sequentially demolished the old guards’ fortresses. Once untouchable is now the undisputed ruler of the telecoms world. What’s its size? The VoIP services market generated a whopping US$20.7 billion worth of revenue in the first half of 2009, with the economic crisis failing to curtail its growth, Infonetics said.
The global residential VoIP subscriber base increased 14% over the year, with the market on pace to reach 225 million residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers by 2013, the researchers noted.
That’s merely the tip of an iceberg. Consider VoIP being embedded in the international traffic worldwide. That’s utterly mind boggling, as shown bellow.
You must have seen it in the article “Traffic Trading in the Competitive International Voice Market” in IEEE Communications Magazine’s August 2009 issue. If you don’t have access to this publication, its lead author – Stefano Bregni (bregni@elet.polimi.it) – may be contacted to comprehend how the facts of VoIP are stranger than fiction.
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