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Voip Evolution In The Us: From Fixed To Wireless

Published By: Visiongain
June 2005
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In 2005, global VoIP revenue will grow to more than $80 billion, with North America contributing around 3 per cent of revenues. But what will this be by 2010? What will be the percentage migration of traffic from the PSTN to VoIP? Is the US market going to drive the growth? This report provides a timely in-depth analysis of the US VoIP market, as well as wireless VoIP.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Executive Summary
1.1.1 Rapid growth in VoIP traffic
Chart 1. North America VoIP revenue, 2005-2010
1.1.2 Enterprise segment driving VoIP migration
1.1.3 Consumer issues with VoIP
1.1.4 Three types of companies will dominate VoIP market
Table 1. US major instant messaging service providers
1.1.5 A marginal opportunity for portable VoIP
1.2 VoIP evolution: from fixed to wireless
1.2.1 IP telephony
1.2.2 Wi-Fi Technology
Table 2. Typical hotspot locations
1.2.3 Birth of the voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) market
1.3 Focus of this report


Chapter 2 VoIP government regulation
2.1 United States
Table 3. VoIP government regulation in the US, 1970-2005
2.1.1 VoIP providers and taxation
Table 4. Wireline vs. wireless taxation comparison
2.1.1.1 Taxation on federal level
2.1.1.1.1 Universal Service Fund
2.1.1.1.2 Intercarrier compensation
2.1.1.1.3 Taxation on local level
2.1.2 Regulatory issues facing VoIP
2.1.2.1 VoIP and lawful intercept
2.1.2.2 911-compliance issue
2.1.2.2.1 IP-based networks' nature makes 911 support difficult
2.1.2.2.2 Available options
2.1.2.2.3 High costs of 911 support will add to customers' bill
2.1.2.3 VoIP and broadband access
2.2 VoIP regulation outside the United States
2.2.1 Canada
2.2.2 EU
2.2.3 UK
2.2.4 Germany
2.2.5 South Korea
2.2.6 Japan

Chapter 3 Standardization of wireless VoIP
3.1 VoIP standardization: participating organizations
3.1.1 ITU
3.1.2 Wireless VoIP Consortium
Table 5. Wireless VoIP Consortium participating companies
3.1.3 IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee
Table 6. IEEE 802 active working and study groups
3.1.4 Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA)
Table 7. WFA task groups and committees
3.1.5 Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
Table 8. UMA participating companies
Chart 2. UMA architecture
3.1.6 World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WwiSE) Consortium
Table 9. WwiSE participating companies

Chapter 4 Standards and technologies to enable wireless VoIP
Figure 1. Global wireless standards
4.1 Wireless VoIP bearers
Table 10. The mobile standards compared
4.1.1 Wi-Fi standards
Table 11. Wi-Fi extensions
4.1.2 WiMAX
Table 12. Outline of 802.16 standards
4.1.3 802.20 (Mobile-Fi)
4.2 VoIP standards
4.2.1 H.323 functionality comes up short
4.2.2 SIP protocol: consolidating IP-based communications services
4.2.2.1 SIP's characteristics
Chart 3. SIP session architecture
4.2.2.2 SIP's advantages
4.2.3 IP Multimedia Subsystem makes IP convergence true
Table 13. Main functions of IMS
Chart 4. IMS session architecture
4.2.4 Peer-to-peer VoIP telephony
4.2.4.1 Popular Telephony's Peerio concept revolutionizes enterprise telephony

Chapter 5 US VoIP market overview and forecasts
Chart 5. Consumer awareness of VoIP in the USA, 2004
Chart 6. US VoIP subscriber growth forecast, 2005-2010
5.1 US telecoms sector overview
Chart 7. Technology penetration in the US telecoms sector, 2002-2004
Table 14. US top five ISPs
5.1.1 Broadband
Chart 8. Share of broadband lines by region
Chart 9. US Broadband vs. Dial-up connections (at-home)
5.1.1.1 US broadband access: cable vs. DSL
Chart 10. US cable vs. DSL broadband connections
Table 15. US major cable and DSL providers' subscriber bases
5.2 Triple play: VoIP as a part of the strategy
5.3 Quadruple play: adding wireless voice
5.4 Enabling wireless VoIP
5.4.1 Cable companies are embracing Wi-Fi

Chapter 6 Voice over WLAN
Chart 11. VoWLAN handsets in use forecast, 2005-2010
6.1 The VoWLAN ecosystem
Table 16. Voice over Wi-Fi value chain
Table 17. Overview of VoIP services and markets
6.1.1 VoWLAN market drivers and challenges
6.1.1.1 Primary VoWLAN markets
6.1.2 ROI benefits
6.1.2.1 Hard ROI
6.1.2.2 Soft ROI
6.1.3 Further challenges
6.2 VoWLAN adoption by market segment
6.2.1 VoWLAN and the enterprise
6.2.2 Deployments in schools
6.2.3 Hospital Wi-Fi
6.2.4 VoWLAN in the home
6.2.4.1 Soft phones
6.3 Why the need for cellular/Wi-Fi phones?
6.3.1 Service Providers
6.3.2 Enterprises
6.3.3 Equipment manufacturers
6.3.4 Solution vendors
6.3.5 Consumers
6.3.6 WISPs
6.3.7 Operator objectives with Wi-Fi/cellular handsets
Table 18. Value of dual-mode handsets to the mobile operator
6.3.7.1 Targeting the enterprise segment + boosting ARPU

Chapter 7 US residential VoIP service market overview
Chart 12. US residential VoIP market shares by provider type
7.1 VoIP pricing varies with provider's type
Table 19. VoIP pricing by US providers
7.2 Case study: Vonage
Table 20. Vonage customers & ARPU in 2004
Table 21. Vonage ranks in Top 10 Advertisers
7.2.1 Vonage goes mobile
7.3 Teleo: "Portable VoIP that Clicks!"
Table 22. Teleo's VoIP offering analysis
Table 23. Teleo VoIP pricing details
7.4 AT&T CallVantage
Table 24. AT&T CallVantage VoIP pricing details
Table 25. AT&T CallVantage's VoIP offering analysis
7.5 VoiceGlo
Table 26. VoiceGlo VoIP pricing in details
Table 27. VoiceGlo's VoIP offering analysis

Chapter 8 Skype: a global packet telephony provider
8.1 Brief history
8.2 Skype relies on P2P telephony
Chart 13. Skype user base growth, 2003-2005
8.3 Skype business model
Chart 14. Skype's paying vs. non-paying user base, 2005
Chart 15. Skype's paying vs. non-paying user base, 2008
8.3.1 Skype products
8.3.1.1 Skype free software
Table 28. Skype software versions
8.3.1.2 SkypeOut
Chart 16. SkypeOut user base growing dynamics, 2004-2005
Table 29. Skype rates for select destinations
8.3.1.3 SkypeIn
Table 30. Countries with SkypeIn offerings
8.3.1.4 Skype Voicemail
8.3.2 Skype distribution channels
8.3.2.1 Co-branded deals
Table 31. Skype co-branding deals, 2004-2005
8.3.2.2 Partnerships with Wi-Fi providers
Table 32. Skype and Broadreach Networks Wi-Fi partnership
8.3.2.3 Skype going mobile
Image 1. Skype on Pocket PC
8.3.2.3.1 i-mate PDA models will carry Skype
Image 2. PDA2K
8.3.2.3.2 Skype on BenQ50
Image 3. BenQ50
8.3.2.4 Business solutions from Skype
8.4 Forecast for Skype
Chart 18. Skype's paying vs. non-paying user base growth forecast, 2005-2010
8.4.1 Implications of Skype on mobile industry

Chapter 9 Conclusions and recommendations


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