December 25, 2006
8% Of US Households Use VoIP?
Dal at Asterisk VoIP News discusses In-Stat's findings that 7.9% of US households use some sort of VoIP. While that's good news, I think VoIP isn't ubiquitous enough yet for anyone's statistical sampling techniques to come up with an accurate figure. I don't know how many "households" there are in the USA, but according to In-Stat and their "newly launched Residential VoIP Tracker Service", over 9M US households are using VoIP. That is, one or more people are using some form of VoIP service.
Now if they have that kind of hard evidence instead of approximations based on questionable Neilsen-type survey household defintions, that's great: very good news indeed. This apparently includes both soft client services like Skype and broadband phone service like Vonage. Skype also announced their new disruptive, unlimited North American calling at $29.95/yr ($14.95 until Jan 31st, 2007), which is likely to increase usage, at least, say, among homesick college students.
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