Worldwide VoIP gear revenue to hit $12B in 2010
If you read enough market studies, they all kind of blend into each other, don’t they? Here’s what looks like a new one from ZDNet Research that sounds vaguely familiar even though the numbers are fresh. It says that worldwide revenue from the sale of VoIP equipment will reach nearly $12 billion in 2010, up from not quite $4 billion in 2005. That’s an annual growth rate of 24.7 percent. PBXes account for 46 percent of the market today, with infrastructure and residential equipment each with 27 percent. The number of residential VoIP subscribers will supposedly rise from 15.8 million in 2005 to 151.2 million by 2010, slightly north of a 57 percent increase per year. Two questions: were there really only 16 million paying VoIP customers in the whole world last year? And how many of that 2010 projection will be telcos retaining customers by going VoIP themselves?
For more information about the 2010 VoIP market:
- read this article from ZDNet
- for other predictions about VoIP revenue read this