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VoIP Services in Asia
In-Stat/MDR, Nov 2005, Pages: 69
Since its entrance into the diverse Asia telecommunication market in the late 1990s, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has gained fast recognition and tremendous success. In many countries, with regulatory support, VoIP long distance calling volumes surged while service providers were bearing significant price reductions. In saturated and competitive fixed-line markets like Japan and Hong Kong, fast movers such as Yahoo!BB and Hong Kong Broadband Network introduced local VoIP lines to lure subscribers. The incentives were price advantages and the convenience of a single line for converged voice and data services. On the contrary, poor adoption of VoIP is observed in countries where the regulator over-protected incumbents with unfavorable VoIP policies. Nevertheless, counting on countries where VoIP is active—Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand—Asia registered a volume of about 175.2 billion minutes VoIP calls in 2004. Backed by clear evidence of continuous call migration from PSTN to IP platform, total VoIP calling minutes are expected to reach 484.2 billion by 2009. Over the same time, VoIP service revenue will rise from US$5.5 billion to US$10.8. At the country level, this report describes the latest status development of VoIP markets and assesses market regulatory enablers, major players, scales of VoIP businesses, and revenue trend.
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