From Euro Telcoblog I’ve read Mapping VoIP, another perspective a comment on a voipuser forum entry that gives usage numbers from outbound voip calls.
But what I found to be most interesting is the follow-up comment of Dean:
I checked this against our website logfiles and the demographic of our members and users. Unsurprisingly, they’re an almost perfect match [ NOTE from Esteve: This refers to the first entry of the forum, where a list of conuntries and outbound minutes has been given ] .
What does this mean? Well, it means that our members (some 8,000 of you in all) don’t make many international calls. Most of you are making phone calls within your own country.
What does that say about VoIP? Not much beyond what we’ve already been talking about anyway - VoIP is not a cheap bucket-call-shop phone replacement service (the traditional cut price telecoms companies made their money on international routing). You’re using it to test out your asterisk boxes, re-routing facilities, voicemail to email etc.
I’ve always felt that VoIP is about adding value to telephony, not cutting prices. These facts and figures certainly don’t seem to me to contradict that.
Dean