2006-12-28

Residential VoIP in USA

Somebody did send me the following link: In-Stat Reports 7.9 % of U.S. Households Now Use a VoIP Telephone Service

I will not reproduce the whole article (read it, quite interesting!), but made a graph with the data:

Nice, Skype in the first position!

Some remarks:
  • They say 9 million households use VoIP
  • This means more then 9 million persons
  • My guess: 2.5 persons per household (?)
  • 2.2 million Skype Households in the USA
  • Therefore about 5.5 million Skype Users in the USA?
Also interesting: “more than 40 % of client-based VoIP users use their residential VoIP service either in part or in whole for business purposes”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Jean,
Consider the fact that this study is of just the USA, and that the portion of Skype's users outside the USA is probably around 85%. Vonage (the #2 in the list) has a small business in the UK I think, and MSN I suppose has some business outside the USA (but you can't really call MSN service VoIP. As a result, this "study" gives a distorted impression that Skype is just barely ahead of the others.

Hudson

Jean Mercier said...

Hello Hudson,

The title clearly says: USA.
But indeed you are right: in other parts of the world, Skype has probably a higher part of the market then it is in the USA.

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