Sep 04 2007

VOIP yet to take-off in UK

Published by Miles at 5:18 pm under News,Research

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And rounding off our brief look at new studies and surveys emerging lately….

A new study from Ofcom has found that Voice- Over-Internet- Protocol (VoIP) services – like those offered by Skype, Vonage, BT Broadband Talk and Tesco – have failed to capture the public imagination.

Ofcom found that only 17 per cent of broadband-connected adults said they’d used VoIP services at least once, with only 14 per cent of that total using it every day.

Other research found that folks were still hanging on to their mobiles and landlines for calls – so much so that web-based callers were more likely to have both mobiles and landlines than the average UK adult.

Whilst tech analysts have been busy predicting that web-based phone services are ready and waiting to kill off regular land-line services, the reality seems to be that that the technology is still firmly stuck in the ‘early-adopter’ phase.

Checkout this article on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase for more on VOIP.

Source: Net4Now

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