Will there be 1 Billion Mobile VoIP Users by 2017?
most VoIP users aren’t paying a dime for their IP telephony. Many mobile VoIP apps, as well as many desktop VoIP applications, are completely free to use, and it’s questionable how many people will really want to start shelling out for what is often utilized as an auxiliary service.
Are Patent Wars Impacting the IP Telephony Market?
The incredibly precise nature of patent law, and potential concerns for the hardware side of the IP telephony market, can be seen by looking at the recent news Apple is being sued for infringing a patent for a “mobile phone with a headset,” simply because Apple includes multifunction headphones with each iPhone they sell. While common sense argues that a multifunction headphone probably doesn’t count as a “headset,” the patent being brought up in this case revolves around a removable headset that is designed “to receive at least telephony audio signals from the phone, and to provide audio signals to the phone.”
Just How Big Will VoIP Market Grow? (Part 1)
One set of recent data on the size of the global VoIP market comes from research firm International Data Corporation, which released a detailed breakdown of the market’s 2011 successes. This report states that the market racked up about $3.5 billion last year, when all was said and done.
$3.5 billion is a far, far cry from the $40 billion Point Topic projects for 2015, which begs the question… will the VoIP market really grow in size by over 10x last year’s volume over the course of the next 3-4 years? Is such growth even possible, or is Point Topic simply pulling grandiose numbers out of thin air?
Why is Skype Launching Free Wi-Fi in Britain?
Talk about giving up more privacy! It remains to be seen whether it will meet wide adoption among business community and whether this kind of targeted marketing will not turn many end users away from service.
The Future of Unified Communications As a Service
If there’s anything standing in the way of the continued growth of hosted telephony, it is the prospect of state and federal regulation. Voice over IP services, including hosted PBX, and other really innovative telecommunications advancements aren’t neatly pigeonholed into one legal category. VoIP could be considered a telecommunications service, but it depends on the Internet, which is not. The Internet isn’t heavily regulated, which means that it would be easy for new business VoIP companies to get into the game, and create a lot of healthy market competition. If they are regulated as telecommunications carriers instead, which currently is not the case, they would become subject to stiff regulatory guidelines.
The Continued Importance of Stationary Handsets in the Smart Phone Era
When using a stationary handset for your businesses’ telephony needs your employees will develop an unconscious understanding of where the system and all its features are, which means they won’t have to think each time they pick of the phone, transfer a call, or otherwise utilize the system.
What VoIP Readiness Assessment Does Not Tell You
In order to guarantee voice quality performance in today’s converged world of Hosted VoIP, there needs to be continued on-going visibility of both voice and data to see and understand how they interact. Such guarantee comes at a cost and business decisions on whether such guarantee is justified should be made by organizations based on factors such as budget, executive’s understanding of VoIP technology and business tolerance to voice quality related issues.
Hosted PBX Trends
Telecommunications is going the way of the Internet. Voice, video and data will all be handled by packet switching rather than the more cumbersome circuit switching of the past. These solutions will continue to enhance the way SMBs do business and cost less. However, aligning the capabilities of the Hosted PBX technology with business objectives requires some degree of understanding said technology and having a vision for its role in their enterprise.
FCC’s VoIP Regulation Dilemma
Telecommunication Regulation has been described as the most influential factor shaping the telecom market. In some ways, the influence is felt more through its absence.
VoIP and 911: placing a call
Geographic portability of VoIP puts the burden of keeping track of the source location on the operator, not the service provider. Like it or not, but customer must take the responsibility to update the location information of the telephone as the VoIP providers will not be aware of the move.