27 Million Americans with VoIP in 2009

Om Malik | Wednesday, April 6, 2005 | 7:28 AM PT | 1 comment

Time once again for wild and wooly projections, this time from IDC. Last checked there were about a million VoIP users in the US, but somehow the number is going to magically increase to 27 million in four years, they say. For 2005 they are looking at 3 million subscribers. Those numbers means nearly 20% of US homes culd be using VoIP by 2009. I am not really sure about this report, but 27 million sounds too steep. Unless if you start including services like Skype. Then that number makes sense. Read More at IDC

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April 6th, 2005
8:03 AM PT
noirExtreme said:

VoIP Still Has a Long Distance to Travel

International Data Corporation (IDC) sees [US] residential VoIP subscriptions increasing from 3 million in 2005 to 27 million by 2009.
Source: eMark

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