To all the nay-sayers who were quick to pronounce that voice was dead, the rumors of its demise were clearly premature. According to Infonetics Research, and a post from Om Malik, the market size is $20.7 BILLION dollars.
This is before you add in all the non-revenue minutes from services like Skype, Gizmo, Yahoo Messenger and the rest of the no-cost to talk services that are making ancillary revenue off of things like dial in DIDs and other services.
What the report also points out is that US cable operator Comcast has become a very big player in voice, which means that both Level3 and Sprint are seeing lots of traffic at the wholesale level, while AT&T, now a dead on competitor to Comcast via Uverse, likely is losing their share of business from not only Comcast, but all the major cable operators.
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