US consumer VOIP usage increases with Vonage leading the way

According to a study conducted by Telephia, VoIP penetration as a home phone service solution is slowly gaining traction within U.S. households, reveals Telephia, the leading provider of performance measurement information to the converging communications and mobile industries.Overall penetration for VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) increased to 3.5 percent or nearly 3.9 million households in January 2006, up from 2.9 percent in June 2005. Vonage led the VoIP market, which includes all pure-play VoIP companies and providers who actively promote their VoIP service as Internet telephony. Vonage secured a 47.5 percent market share or nearly 1.9 million households in January 2006, up from a 40 percent share in June 2005.
Read about the released study at Telephia.....
Here is a sample from the study;
Company......................................Market Share....Households
Vonage...........................................47.5%.......1,861000
Skype............................................11.8%.........463000
AT&T Call Vantage................................ 5.6%.........218000
Verizon Voice Wing................................5.0%.........196000
Google............................................2.5%..........97000
8x8 (Packet8).....................................1.7%..........67000
Other VoIP Providers (excluding cable companies) 25.9%.......1,013000
Source: Telephia EPCO Survey, January 2006