USA - VoIP Market - Analysis, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Strong subscriber and revenue growth rates have positioned VoIP firmly on the US telecommunications map. Since the entry of Comcast and other cable companies, VoIP services have been emerging apace. Non-facilities based, or ‘pure play’, VoIP providers, such as Skype, are making inroads into the US VoIP market. The VoIP market has also witnessed the entry of Microsoft and Apple and Internet giants Google, Yahoo! and AOL. Threatened with growing wireline revenue and customer losses, the major telcos themselves have begun to deploy networks with a view to providing VoIP in a triple play bundle. The future of mobile VoIP is also looking promising particularly following the decisions by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility in early 2008 to use the open access platform of LTE for their 4G investments. Mobile VoIP’s prospects were further augmented in mid-2008 when Sprint and Clearwire finally inked their deal to deploy a nationwide WiMAX network.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. VoIP market overview
  
  • 2.1 VoIP statistics
    
• 3. VoIP regulation
  
• 4. VoIP technology in the US
  
  • 4.1 Overview
    
  • 4.2 History
    
  • 4.3 IP telephony gateways
    
  • 4.4 Value-added features
    
  • 4.5 Hosted VoIP solutions
    
  • 4.6 Circuit-to-packet network migration
    
  • 4.7 IP-based private networks and computer telephony integration
    
  • 4.8 Mobile VoIP
    
• 5. Major VoIP providers
  
  • 5.1 Cable VoIP
    
  • 5.2 Alternative providers
    
  • 5.3 Telco VoIP
    
• 6. Forecasts
  
  • 6.1 Forecasts – VoIP market to 2013
    
  • 6.2 Notes on scenario forecasts
    
• 7. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – VoIP subscribers of major providers – 2007 - 2008
• Table 4 – Cable VoIP subscribers and annual change – 2003 - 2008
• Table 2 – Forecast VoIP subscribers and revenue – lower growth scenario – 2009 - 2013
• Table 3 – Forecast VoIP subscribers and revenue – higher growth scenario – 2009 - 2013

• Exhibit 1 – VoIP pioneers – Net2Phone
• Exhibit 2 – Components of network convergence
• Exhibit 3 – Major cable VoIP operators – 2008
• Exhibit 4 – Major alternative VoIP developments – 2008
• Exhibit 5 – Major telco VoIP developments – 2008