In one of my posts here, I discussed about the companies that offer mobile VoIP phones for the UK customers. My intention was to tell you how mobile VoIP is dominating the UK. Today, I came across an Analysis report which made me sure that cellular VoIP will gradually sideline the fixed VoIP services in the next six years, though the report takes the case of USA and West Europe.
In the report ‘Forecasting the Commercial Impact of Wireless VoIP in the USA and Western Europe’, the Analysis says the cellular VoIP service would generate revenues worth $18.6 billion in the USA and $7.3 billion in Western Europe by 2012. The revenues from the fixed VoIP services would be $11.9 billion and $6.9 billion in these regions, respectively during the same period.
The mobile operators would be compelled to shift their voice services from circuit switched voice to VoIP due to the upgradation of CDMA2000 1x Evolution Data Optimized(EV-DO) networks to Revision A from 2007 and the upgradation of W-CDMA networks to 3G Long Term Evolution(LTE) by 2010.
The report further says cellular VoIP will carry 28percent of all fixed and mobile voice minutes in US and 23 percent in Western Europe by 2015. Cellular VoIP will dominate the mix of wireless VoIP services in the developed markets. Therefore, WiMAX would play a greater role in the Voice market, the report predicts.
