The Overall Market for VoIP ICs Will Grow from $208.7 Million in 2004 to $1.3 Billion in 2009; Skype Taking VoIP To Retail Via Radio Shack
VoIP industry news industry Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28143) has announced the addition of VoIP ICs - Building a Foundation for the Future to their offering. Voices over Internet Protocol (VoIP) semiconductors are driving the VoIP revolution from service provider infrastructure and the business IP PBX to residential CPE and IP phones. This report analyzes the various markets for VoIP semiconductors and the major drivers behind each of the markets. Vendor market shares and five-year forecasts for each market segment and the overall market are included.
A company that stands to benefit from the growth in VoIP is VoX Communications Corp. a subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB: ELEC), certainly has been rapacious since being formed in October 2004 to provide high-quality wholesale and retail VoIP service. The service allows users to make telephone calls via a broadband Internet connection for less money than regular telephone service. VoX Communications Corp. is recently featured in the Orlando Business Journal, November 18, 2005 edition, "company is gobbling up as many contracts and partners as fast as it can with the idea of becoming a top five player within the industry next year, right alongside the Vonages and Packet8s of the world. The ultimate goal is to become so fat and enticing that VoX itself will end up on the dinner plate of a major communications company such as an AT&T (NYSE: SBC)or BellSouth. "It's all about building value, and our immediate goal is to build value for our shareholders and employees," says Mark Richards, VoX's 45-year-old president and chief information officer. "But our overall goal is to build ourselves up to the point where we will be bought out."
Skype an eBay company (Nasdaq: EBAY) is about to start offering VoIP kits in thousands of Radio Shack (NYSE: RSH) stores across the country, ratcheting up its already tight competition with Vonage Holdings. In an aggressive move into U.S. retail markets, Skype Technologies said starter kits for its VoIP service will be offered in thousands of Radio Shack stores across the country. The official announcement, expected Monday, follows by a year Skype's deal with Logitech, which marketed "Skype-Certified" headsets with up to 120 minutes of free vouchers for SkypeOut service. The Logitech-Skype offerings have been sold in U.S. retailers including Best Buy. |
