In recent years, the share of landline telephony has greatly decreased, because traditional telecoms have powerful competitors in the face of mobile operators and VoIP providers. In the next five years, the situation will change in the same direction. According to analysts, in 2010 about 25% of Americans will not use wired phones at all.
A list of
33 reasons why VoIP destroys traditional telecoms is an excellent analysis of what will happen in the telecommunications industry in the next five years. This is a kind of timeline of VoIP development, with links to the most important articles and research on this topic. Mention the key points.
Telecoms are very dumbThese mastodons are conservative in their arrogant views and do not at all try to introduce innovations and new services for their clients. A classic example of this is the recent opening of the
GotVoice commercial service, which provides the user with access to his answering machine via the Internet. Sound files can be received by email. Telecoms still have not guessed to provide such a service to their subscribers, so independent companies have to do this.
VoIP is cheaperIt is unlikely that commercial telecoms will be able to compete with companies that offer absolutely free international communication. For example, in the framework of a
special promotion ,
Skype offers free calls to landline telephones in the USA and Canada. Similar options for 40-50 countries offer VoIP-startups
Raketu and
FuturePhone .
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VoIP - more advanced technologyModern VoIP protocols, such as
Raketu , imply peer-to-peer traffic exchange, thereby eliminating the security problems inherent in past VoIP protocols using super-nods.
New productsScientific research in the field of VoIP allows you to create new, better, products at a lower price. Created and new software. For example, in mid-November, a third version of
Skype will be released. The
VoIP web program
for Mac and Linux is coming soon.
Gradually, the first
WiFi-enabled phones with VoIP appear. Given the growing popularity of WiFi hotspots, these phones can be widely distributed.
Connection qualityRecent studies show that some VoIP-services are already superior to their fixed competitors in the quality of communication, as well as in reliability.
In addition to the above, VoIP provides users with an order of magnitude greater functionality than landline telephone networks.