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Worldwide numbers of VOIP users increase!

2005 saw VOIP breakout into the market and provide quality Internet telephone services, with the number of U.S. subscribers more than tripling to 4.5 million and industry revenue surpassing $1 billion.

At the beginning of 2005 in the unit states there were 1.3 million subscribers of Voice over Internet Protocol services, according to a survey by analysis firm TeleGeography. In the last three months of the year alone, 900,000 people signed up for VoIP services. VoIP requires a broadband Internet connection or a cable subscription, and generally comes in competitive calling plans.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a way to make and receive phone calls using your broadband connection. It involves the transmission of ordinary telephone calls over the Internet. In other words, VoIP can send voice over the Internet, rather than through the regular telephone network.

Using SIP technology (session initiation protocol) with an analogue telephone adapter or VOIP router, your calls are directed through the Internet rather than the plain old telephone system. The ATA can be attached to an analog, cordless or DECT telephone, allowing you to make and receive calls as you normally would.

I Australia we have also seen a massive increase of commercial operations utilizing VOIP services has seen the the two leading companies engin and My Netfone significantly eating into the traditional PSTN telephone call market.

# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 2:50 AM