VoIP News
Daily VoIP or Broadband Phone News & Updates.- If you think Vonage and Skype are the alpha and omega of consumer VoIP, think again. Three out of the top five VoIP carriers in the last quarter of 2005 were cable companies, according to figures compiled by ISP-Planet from publicly available sources.
Skype is the carrier with the most customers--1.8 million as of July 2005--with Vonage's 1.5 million (as of March 2006) not far behind. But the third, fourth and fifth carriers are Cox, Comcast and Time Warner Digital Phone, with between 1.1 million and 1.3 million users.
The study notes, however, that the cable services are not true VoIP services, and that many service providers do not make subscriber numbers available. Also, it's not clear whether network operators like the cablecos can compete long-term with software-based providers like Skype and Vonage, which don't face the same infrastructure costs.
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