I have with me the latest In-Stat report, which presents vivid picture of current state of Residential VoIP in the USA. The most interesting aspects of the recent study is the tentatively inclusion of both client-based VoIP services like Skype and Facilities-based VoIP services such as Vonage to find out exact number of household VoIP users.
A new kind of service Residential VoIP Tracker Service introduced by research firm In-Stat confirms there is an increase in the number of residential VoIP customers in the country in the last few months.
According Residential VoIP Tracker Service, now US has more than 9 million active residential VoIP customers. The active VoIP customers are the customers who don’t access multiple VoIP services from different service providers.
In percentile terms, 7.9 percent of households now use a VoIP telephony service by the end of Q3 this year. It was 6.5 percent at the end of second quarter.
When it comes to client-based VoIP services, Skype enjoys the supremacy with 2.1 million active households. Microsoft comes next with 1.1 million households as of the end of Q3.
There is a close battle between Vonage and Time Warner Cable in field of facilities-based VoIP services. Vonage leads the USA residential VoIP market with 1.7 million subscribers while Time Warner has 1.6 million active household customers.
Image and Report : In-Stat
