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The movement from traditional voice telephony to Internet based VoIP services in homes is picking up steam, driven by the emergence of Naked DSL, according to a new report.
According to the IDC report titled Residential
VoIP: Let's Get Naked, the inhibitors that had previously been slowing
the uptake of residential VoIP in Australia have been overcome in the
past 6-12 months. IDC lists the high cost of broadband, poor quality of
service, number portability and high complexity as the key issues.
However, the regulatory enabling of Naked DSL, which enables service
providers to offer VoIP over DSL copper lines without the unwanted
additional bundled PSTN telephone line rental cost, has lit a fire
under the residential VoIP market, according to IDC.
"A key driver to this is the bundled sell of broadband and VoIP
together and more recently, the offering of Naked DSL services, which
is a business model that has been enabled via regulation more than
technical capabilities," said David Cannon, Program Manager,
Telecommunications at IDC.
According to the IDC report, throughout 2007, the Australia residential
VoIP market enjoyed strong growth. At the end of CY07, there were an
estimated 285,000 residential VoIP subscribers with an estimated value
of AUD$40.67 million.
IDC also believes VoIP offers a superior service to the PSTN.
"Scalability and flexibility are synonymous with VoIP. The
functionality that VoIP delivers, even at its early stages of maturity,
supersedes that of the PSTN. This means that VoIP is ultimately a
better product that also enables fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) and
unified communications (UC)," the report states.
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