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A new Juniper Research report has found that Mobile VoIP services will develop significantly faster in developed markets due to the direct correlation between 3G rollouts and the take-up of mobile VoIP.

Juniper Research (News - Alert) provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector.

This is the case even though mVoIP traffic volumes may eventually be higher in developing markets due in part to the calling patterns of migrant workers, according to the study , "Mobile Voice Strategies: mVoIP Opportunities & Business Models 2010-2015".

The Mobile Voice report includes an in-depth analysis of the current state of play of the mobile Voice market considering the position of both the incumbent operator and the mobile VoIP new entrant.

The report contains five year forecasts for the number of Mobile VoIP Users over 3G networks, the number of mobile VoIP users via alliances, number of mobile VoIP users via applications, number of 4G mobile VoIP users.

It also contains the value of traffic associated with all of these categories.

'By 2012 we expect significant uptake of mobile VoIP in its various different flavours,' said Anthony Cox, senior analyst at Juniper Research, in a statement.

Cox said that by that date mobile VoIP will be available over both 3G and WiFi (News - Alert) networks.

"We also anticipate that several more traditional operators will have joined 3UK  and Verizon in the US and developed relationships with mobile VoIP players such as Skype,' he said.

Alliances between mobile VoIP players and traditional operators may provide the best option for today's incumbent operators to address the advent of mobile VoIP, the study said. 

Revenues from the circuit switched voice market will continue to diminish over the next five years, although this will not accelerate.

The research report said that a high percentage of Mobile VoIP carried over applications will be via WiFi networks, bypassing operators' networks altogether. Such traffic will result in some lost revenues, amounting to around $5bn by 2015.