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National operators are dinosaurs, warns telcos chief – 2005 to be ‘Year of VoIP’One of the world’s leading authorities on the Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) and UK CEO of one of the world’s leading telecoms equipment manufacturers – DeTeWe – has warned today that the time of national telecoms operators is coming to an end, with global VoIP players set to take significant market share in 2005. Shocair said: “2004 laid the foundation for widespread take-up of VoIP, with a range of new product releases and service announcements that mean VoIP is set to be a reality this year for consumers and enterprises both large and small. In the US alone, the market is likely to double over the next year from the current 700,000 subscribers to more than 2 million as broadband connections become even more common in US homes.” “The time of national operators is over. Increasingly, they’re starting to look like dinosaurs against the nimble, global players that are entering the VoIP market. We’re going to see a shakeout on the scale of the commotion caused by the budget airlines when they launched a few years back. Up to 40% of the free cashflow currently generated by the telecoms operators could disappear by 2007, as a direct result of the move to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).” “Even enterprise customers that aren't candidates to deploy IP telephony now are buying VoIP-capable phone systems from us for the future.” |