Thursday, March 08, 2007

Virtual VoIP Carriers (VVCs) Will Grow to 12.96 Million by 2011, Just for Chinese VoIP consumers

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DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51702) has announced the addition of The Consumer VoIP Market in China: Virtual Carriers Still Have Legal Market Space to their offering.

With China's telecom market having relatively high long-distance calling rates, VoIP has gained fast market recognition. Besides the big success of IP card services, telecom carriers are continuously pushing broadband IP telephony service forward in China, the high-tech market research firm says. The number of broadband VoIP subscribers served by telecom carriers is expected to rapidly expand to 9.53 million by the end of 2011, up from 720,000 in 2006.

Another class of providers, virtual VoIP carriers (VVCs), provides PC to phone services by deploying soft-switching systems on Internet and media gateways between the Internet and public switched telephone networks. The Ministry of Information Industry has declared that broadband IP telephony service can be legally provided only by traditional service providers, thus VVCs are operating illegally and have little phone-number resources (most subscribers can only make outgoing calls). However, due to intense competition among voice service providers, and VVCs' lower price compared with traditional long-distance calling or IP card services, VVCs are having success.

Recent research found the following:

* VVCs had 1.1 million consumer subscribers by the end of 2005, and we estimate that the number was around 1.23 million at the end of 2006.
* Consumer broadband IP telephony subscribers served by VVCs will grow to 12.96 million by 2011.

The research, "The Consumer VoIP Market in China: Virtual Carriers Still Have Legal Market Space" covers the market for Voice over Internet Protocol in China. It includes subscriber forecasts for telecom providers and VVCs through 2011. It also contains extensive analysis of the market drivers and barriers, and profiles of selected providers.

Key Topics Covered inside Report:

Executive Summary
Definition
Market Overview
Market Status Quo
Telecom VoIP (IP Card) Services Boom
Broadband IP Telephony Slowly Builds Momentum
IM-based VoIP Flourishes in China
Value Chain Analysis
Drivers and Barriers
Drivers
Competitive Price of IP Telephony
The Flourishing of Broadband Applications
NGN Deployment Driving VoIP
Barriers
Policy Restrictions on VoIP
Lack of Core Impetus in the Value Chain
Intense Competition in Virtual Operation
Market Trends and Forecast
Market Opportunity Analysis
Cable Operators Have Opportunities to Compete with Telcos on VoIP
Small Broadband Providers are too Weak
Consumer VoIP Subscriber Forecast
Consumer VoIP End-Device Classification and Forecast
Softphones
Corded IP Phones
Wireless IP Phones
End-Device Users Forecast
Select Service Provider Profiles
China Broadband Communications
263 Network Communication
Skype
Methodology
Glossary
Related Reports

List of Tables

Table 1. Price Comparison between IP Telephony and Non-IP Telephony
Services, 2006
Table 2. Broadband Telephony Subscriber Forecast: China, 2005-2011
(in Millions)
Table 3. Comparison between IP Phone and Softphone Subscribers in
China, 2006 (in Millions)
Table 4. IP Client Subscribers Forecast Segmented by Device Type:
China, 2005-2011 (in Millions)

List of Figures

Figure 1. Broadband IP Telephony Subscriber Forecast: China, 2005-2011
(in Millions)
Figure 2. Calling Minutes of VoIP (IP Card) and PSTN Long-Distance
Service: China, 2001-2006 (in Millions)
Figure 3. Value Chain of the Consumer VoIP Market in China
Figure 4. China's Broadband Access Subscriber Forecast, 2004-2011
Figure 5. Broadband Telephony Subscriber Forecast: China, 2005-2011
(in Millions)
Figure 6. CBCom Softphone
Figure 7. Grandstream BudgeTone BT 101 IP Phone
Figure 8. Paragon Wireless Hipi GSM/Wi-Fi Dual-mode Phone
Figure 9. VoIP Client Subscribers Forecast Segmented by Device Type:
China, 2005-2011 (in Millions)

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51702

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