22 June 2005
The European IP telephone market has experienced impressive growth, rising in value to $79.3 million for the first quarter of 2005, up from $77.1 million from the last quarter of 2004.
IDC's Western European IP Telephone Tracker report has revealed that IP phone shipments stood at approximately 297,500 units, a rise of 17.9 per cent, according to Telecom Paper.
Rogier Mol, senior research analyst at IDC, said: "The trend of decreasing unit prices and increasing shipments can be related back to the fact that IP telephones with full functionality are only being deployed at those locations that make business sense, and that IP telephone hardware vendors currently discount hardware used in IP telephony implementations."
Cisco held its place as market leader, followed by Avaya.
IP telephones can be benefical to users as they can be used to call friends or workmates over the internet, at a lower cost.
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