25 million broadband phone users in the world
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A new snapshot has been given on the world VoIP situation. It’s the European telecoms consultancy, Idate, which gave the figures this time. And in 2005, there had been in 25 millions residential broadband phone users in the world. That’s three times more than a year earlier.
One important note: Voice softwares weren’t integrated in the report. The given snapshot hence tells how popular IP phone offers could be. And how not that big Skype, Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Live Messenger market shares are.
Now the population distribution. Japan leads the ranking with 10.6 million VoIP users, followed by the USA with 4.5 million Internet telephone lines. In Europe, 51% of VoIP traffic goes for broadband phone. At the same time period but a year earlier, the proportion was a shy 10%.
Some new figures completes those ones a bit. Broadband adoption increased 59 percent from March last year to March 2006 among U.S. middle class, according to a survey to be released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
May 30, 2006 | By Nuno
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