VoIP News: Telappliant Ltd

For VoIP traffic to rise, comfortable further investment is needed to allow the UK's plan for 90 per cent fibre penetration to take shape, it has been claimed. The plan to provide fast broadband via fibre networks to a high percentage of UK homes is going to require a significant level of investment to be successful, according to various media outlets. Investment will be needed to make the network successful, according to the media outlets, because even with BT opening up its tunnels to allow for greater fibre provisioning the state of the UK's finances means that private sector investment, or a secondary tax layer, will be necessary to allow for true VoIP take off.

The possibility of tailor-made VoIP phones took a step closer today with the announcement of the launch of the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform, a new, entirely open source operating system by the Symbian Foundation. Symbian is one of the world's most popular mobile operating systems and with the launch of Symbian^3 the foundation is making it significantly easier for companies to edit the operating system for maximum VoIP compatibility.

Increased competition by a consortium of companies may increase VoIP traffic and take, according to news reports across the media that a dozen of the world's major mobile phone operators are taking arms against Apple's App Store. The Apple App Store is a platform which distributes software to phones. Users can download a mixture of free and paid-for software and the model has been hugely successful, helping to drive sales of the iPhone, Apple's smartphone.

Worldwide, the market for mobilebroadband and the associated VoIP traffic looks set to be invigorated, after the GSMA announced plans by operators around the world to invest up to £46. 1 billion in mobile broadband technologies in 2010. Mobile broadband allows people to make super-fast connections from anywhere that has coverage, so an increased level of broadband provisioning makes VoIP a more credible option for those that are always on the move.

In 2010, VoIP traffic and subscriber levels are expected to accelerate their growth due to an improved housing market and competitively priced bundled service offerings from other service providers, according to a report by the Dell'Oro Group. The report notes that VoIP will be on steadier ground in 2010, after suffering two years of steep revenue declines. VoIP will also be spurred on by the completion of various network modernisation projects.