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April 20, 2005
Niklas Zennstrom's (Skype) Presentation from VON Canada 2005
Niklas's keynote presentation from Voice on the Net Canada 2005 is now available for download.
Posted by jeff on April 20, 2005 07:53 AM | Permalink
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VOIP *may* drive broadband sales in future, although I doubt that is the case now. What is driving broadband sales now, in my opinion, is bulk data transfers.
One doesn't purchase broadband just to collect one's email more rapidly; one pays for the higher speed to exchange files, e.g. via bitorrent. I recall having read estimates that bittorrent traffic may be responsible for as much as one-third of total net traffic (q.v. Cachelogic).
Posted by: Ian Hebert at April 25, 2005 02:30 AM
Thanks for making this available to those of us unable to make it to VON Canada.
Slide 10 has a very provocative claim: "VoIP is driving broadband sales." Is there data to substantiate this claim? What percentage of new broadband subscribers are purchasing broadband to enable them to do VoIP?
A Parks Associates report http://www.parksassociates.com/research/reports/tocs/2004/voip.htm claims only 2% of Broadband homes have VoIP - how many non-Broadband homes want VoIP and go out and buy broadband to get it?
Posted by: DG Lewis at April 20, 2005 12:05 PM