In its IP Telephony report, Point Topic claims that there are about 24 million people pay to access retail VoIP services. It is mainly due to cheap VoIP offerings by the service providers.



The IP Telephony report says the number of retail VoIP subscribers increased by 80 percent to 18.7 million during 2005. Obliviously, the figure does exclude users who make PC to phone calls using Skype.



Highlights of the report



Maximum number of VoIP users is from the Asia-Pacific region, however fastest growth takes place in Europe and the USA.



The number of VoIP subscribers in Europe has increased three times to touch 5.3 million mark last year.



In Europe, France has the highest VoIP adoption. It has now more than 2.8 million paying subscribers.



BT’s VoIP package could not get expected number of subscribers last year but is picking up in early 2006.



In USA, VoIP is popular because of the marketing strategy. In terms of Point Topic, VoIP is described in simple terms customers understand such as digital telephone.











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