VoIP News: May 2010

A US telecommunications firm has seen a significant increase in VoIP traffic over the past year. Verizon Global Wholesale has revealed that its customers used 200 per cent more VoIP minutes in 2009 compared to the previous year. Mike Millegan, president of Verizon Global Wholesale, was especially pleased that the company had posted such figures on its tenth anniversary.

VoIP traffic could be set to increase in the UK following the release of the Apple iPad. The device, which goes on sale from today (May 28th), will offer users the chance to access VoIP solutions by connecting to the internet via the built-in Wi-Fi or 3G cards and using a Bluetooth headset to make calls. The iPad is expected to be hugely popular with British consumers following the unprecedented levels of demand for the product in the US.

expansion of 3G networks, according to research. A new report by technology research firm Juniper Research has revealed that the industry will develop faster in Europe and North America following the increased access to 3G. Anthony Cox, senior analyst at Juniper Research, said: "By 2012 we expect significant uptake of mobile VoIP in its various different flavours.

VoIP solutions will become the standard method of communication in the future, according to experts. Many firms throughout the world are implementing the technology due to its many advantages over standard call networks. Sam Kumar, chief executive officer of American telephony firm Microtech-Tel, expressed his belief that VoIP services will be the most popular form of future communicationHe said: "The Internet is becoming the standard for telecommunications, which is why the traditional telecom business phone service is shrinking each quarter.

VoIP solutions are set to benefit from the predicted boom in super-fast broadband, according to research. Point Topic, the technology analyst firm, has found that the total number of broadband lines is now expected to reach 25. 1 million by the end of 2014 - nearly a million more than previously estimated.