22 million voice over broadband connections in W.Europe by 2008.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study from IDC, voice over broadband (VOBB VOBB Voice Over Broadband VOBB Verot Oaks Building Blocks (Lafayette, Louisiana) )--voice traffic carried across a broadband link, either in IP packets (VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a ) or non-IP technology using formats such as voice over DSL--took off in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). in 2004. Two million new connections took the total number of connections to 2.5 million, which is expected to rise to over 22 million by 2008, yielding $7 billion in revenue, of which 60% will come from the consumer market. Operators have differing attitudes to VOBB depending on their size, network, installed base of customers, and, importantly, their competition. However, most operators in the European broadband market are either selling, launching, trialling, or considering launching some sort of VOBB service. "For many incumbent operators, this will not be a tempting scenario due to the prospect of cannibalizing existing revenue streams. Although VOBB was mainly used to provide secondary line services at the end of 2004, it will increasingly be used as the primary line during the forecast period, as full unbundling A regulatory requirement that enables a competing service provider to purchase parts of the incumbent local exchange carrier's network in order to provide service to its customers. See ILEC. becomes more common and cable operators embrace VOBB services to complete their triple-play bundle. The IDC study, Broadband Voice Opportunity in Western Europe, 2004-2008 (Doe #BT10L, March 2005), examines the state and prospects for the VOBB market and looks at the strategies of various operators. Additionally, this study includes a Western European forecast of broadband connections used for VOBB services as well as the revenue opportunity. These forecasts are segmented by broadband technology broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. , end user, and type of line (primary versus secondary line). www.idc.com. |
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