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November 30, 2004

Global Consumer VoIP Market Size as of: Q3 2004 - 6.85 Million!

Yesterday, my friend Teresa Mastrangelo from RHK shared with me their data thru Q3 2004 for the global consumer VoIP marketplace. These numbers do not include free services.

At the moment, while the VoIP hype factor is in full gear in the US, in reality the commercial VoIP services marketplace in the US is only a little more than 11% of the Asian activity and less than 10% of the global marketplace.

On a global basis, RHK estimates there are 6.85 million people who are paying for VoIP services as of Q3 2004.

Global Total: 6,850,000 Subscribers

Asia Pacific Region: 5.6 Million (Largest is SoftBank with 4.2M), Korea (150K), Hong Kong (1.2M PCCW and HKBN)

Europe, Middle East, Africa Region: 618,000 (FastWeb, B2, Neuf Telecom, assorted Cable Operators)

North America Region: 640,000.

Caribbean and Latin America Region: 7,000 -Liberty Cable. (RHK and I do believe there may be many more subscribers in South America that are not currently being accounted for.)

Posted by jeff on November 30, 2004 08:41 AM | Permalink

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Comments

Erle, Jeff's message caveats that free services are not counted in the totals that were offered to him. Are the services that you are referring to free or fee based? TIA;

Frank

Posted by: Frank Coluccio at December 4, 2004 03:32 PM

The figure for europe has to be too low. Free, the 2nd largest isp in france, has over 1 million broadband customers and each one has voip phone service provided with the supplied freebox. Add a couple of other isp's and it is clear that just in france there are more than a million voip users.

-er

Posted by: earle robinson at December 1, 2004 08:14 AM