There will be more than 1 billion users of over-the-top...
There will be more than 1 billion users of over-the-top (OTT) mobile VoIP services by 2017, Juniper Research said Thursday in a report. The firm said its forecast signals a “dramatic shift” in how voice traffic will be carried over…
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the next five years. Improvements in network technology, increased competition and telcos’ efforts to move into the OTT space will converge to give the mobile VoIP market a “second wind,” Juniper said, though the firm noted that just as with Skype, only a small proportion of mobile VoIP users will pay for the service after this shift. “Many subscribers sign up to an OTT service without ever planning to pay a cent for it, and some industry players do not have a short-term revenue model at all,” said Anthony Cox, the report’s author, in a news release. The arrival of 4G is giving users an additional incentive for telcos to take up mobile VoIP, though that will also mean an accelerated decline in overall voice revenue, Juniper said (http://xrl.us/bn6az4).