November 27, 2005
VoIP in Asia
According to In-Stat, the market for VoIP in Asia is expected to grow at the rate of more than $ 1 billion every year and will be worth more than $ 10 billion by 2009. The number of users will double by then and will be more than 20 million. By the end of 2004, there were 8.7 million local VoIP lines in Asia. The growth of VoIP is being fostered by the discounts that service providers are offering their customers if they shift to IP for their long distance calls.
According to In-Stat, this is the reason that revenue from long distance calls accounts for 85.4% of all VoIP revenue. South Korea and Japan are the two developed VoIP markets in Asia. The growth of local VoIP service has not yet picked steam because of resistance from the existing telecom companies that are invoking regulations to slow down the spread of VoIP. Telecom companies in China are actively seeking to block service such as SkypeOut that offer a cheaper alternative for long distance revenue.
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