19 April 2005
Last year voice over broadband took off in Europe according to a new report and is set to challenge home telephone connections as bills can often be drastically reduced.
Voice over broadband (VoBB) is voice traffic carried across a broadband link, either in IP packets (VoIP) or non-IP technology using formats such as voice over DSL.
According to IDC two million new connections took the total number of connections to 2.5 million, which is expected to rise to over 22 million by 2008.
Furthermore, this base will yield $7 billion in revenue, of which 60 per cent will come from the consumer market.
IDC said that most operators in the European broadband market are either selling, launching, trialing, or considering launching some sort of VoBB service.
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