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January 07, 2008

VoIP is Alive and Well in 2008: A few points about the 2008 VoIP Industry

- Skype is no longer Disruptive. Until eBay acquired Skype in September, 2005, Skype’s viral growth invoked fear in the heart of Telecom executives around the world. These days if someone mentions Skype to the same telecom exec, at best they shrug their shoulders. Skype’s future growth no longer scares anyone. While Skype is still very much “alive”, even if it was declared “dead” from the perspective of viral growth, I estimate Skype has a half-life of at least 7, maybe 10 years. And with such a half-life, most people will never know Skype died since they will continue to use it until something better comes along.

- Social Communications, the MashUp of social media + Internet Communications represent a new multi-billion dollar opportunity for the VoIP Industry to focus on.

- Arbitrage opportunities will continue to exist in telecom and VoIP will be continued to be used to exploit this. There is still money (lots of money) to be made in “cheap VoIP.” Billions of dollars will continue to be earned over time by companies who know how to operate efficiently in a marketplace with razor thin profit margins.

- The SME market for Hosted VoIP services continues to flourish and will grow during 2008, and stronger than other friends have estimated.

- The Enterprise VoIP market will also continue to flourish and grow during 2008.

- Synchronous and Asynchronous communications will continue to blur during 2008 and will be felt first by my friends who are active on social networks like Facebook and twitter.

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While this is still just Janaury, I'm already thinking about the concepts I will be sharing during my speech at Spring 2008 VON taking place in San Jose March 17th – 20th. If you would like to attend as a blogger – just drop me a note. I look forward to seeing everyone in San Jose.

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Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook

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i dont think that skype will die so quick,but in fact all the other voip providers are dying (vonage and so) one by one, i think that this year the revolution will start, google mobile will be in the market in late 2008 with open source and all the reset (nokia and so) will follow,the mobiles will have better processor so skype will be able to run on them and they will kill the SIP once and for all (maybe not kill but will definitely be pain). i belive that skype will present voip in the future same it doing today!

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January 07, 2008

VoIP is Alive and Well in 2008: A few points about the 2008 VoIP Industry

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