New Zealand - VoIP and Fixed-line Voice Market - Statistics and Overview

Synopsis

The VoIP services market in New Zealand has begun a period of transformation, which will continue over the next few years through local loop unbundling and other regulated products. Increasingly small and medium enterprises are installing VoIP as part of larger ICT solutions aimed at cutting overall operating costs.

While the fixed-line voice market (voice calls and local access) continues to lose overall share of the telecom services market, call prices and volumes continue to drop and the uptake of mobile services continues.

In this report we provide an overview of the voice and fixed-line voice market with market statistics, and a brief overview of fixed-to-mobile convergence trends.

This report was archived in 2010 and wil not be updated any more. More recent up-to-date information is now in a separate report New Zealand - Telecommunications - Key Statistics and Telecommunications Market at www.budde.com.au

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. The VoIP market
  • 2.1 Residential VoIP adoption will be slow and protracted
  • 2.2 Market size and estimates
  • 2.3 Residential sector
    • 2.3.1 Overview
    • 2.3.2 Slingshot (CallPlus)
    • 2.3.3 2Talk Ltd
    • 2.3.4 Skype
  • 2.4 Business sector
• 3. Local access and fixed voice overview
  • 3.1 Fixed-line voice market
  • 3.2 Smaller players gaining only limited traction
  • 3.3 Payphones
• 4. Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC)
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Service bundling
  • 4.3 Dual-mode services
  • 4.4 Network convergence
• 5. Related reports

• Table 1 – VoIP plans and calling rates by major provider– December 2010
• Table 2 – Local access, calling revenues and annual change – 2003 - 2010

• Chart 1 – Fixed access lines – 2006 - 2012