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January 2013

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U.S. VoIP market generates $15 billion in annual revenue

January 15, 2013

The U.S. VoIP market has experienced a 16.7 percent annual growth rate over the last five years and generates $15 billion in annual revenue, according to IBISWorld's VoIP in the US report.

A full 65 percent of VoIP users in the United States get their VoIP service through cable companies such as Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), Cox, and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). "Cable companies able to bundle VoIP service with cable service will fare best in consumer markets in the coming five years, while businesses will slowly but surely turn to VoIP for voice needs," according to the report.

Will Data Demand Keep Growing at 60% a Year?

January 1, 2013

Forecasting the future is a tough business, at least in part because people respond to changes in incentives, which in turn reshapes their behavior in non-linear ways. Many of you who follow trends in bandwidth are familiar with a basic rule suggesting that bandwidth consumption grows about 60 percent a year, globally or in most market segments.

It therefore is logical to assume continued growth at about that magnitude. But that might not be a safe assumption.