VoIP is going mainstream this year

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Vanson Bourne, a UK marketing consultancy, dished out a recent survey made on a 3,000 UK company IT managers. The results are not surprising, VoIP is going mainstream, but this times, figures emphasize on the reason of the switch. In short:

  • 73% of retail, transport and distribution sectors would switch to VoIP to cut costs on phone bills, as 61% for the manufacturing industry.
  • 57% of financial services companies for voice and data convergence.
  • Over 50% of respondents across all industry sectors said they would this year consider converge existing systems to some voice and data solutions.

The lack of budget (40%) remains the biggest barriers to this adoption. [Read]

Mar 9, 2006 | By Nuno

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