Daily News 2005/05/20

New types of telecom services developing rapidly

In the past two years, new types of telecom services, represented by VoIP services, has developed rapidly in America and affected the market of traditional telecom services, such as local telephone services, long-distance telephone service and mobile telecom services.

Nowadays, more than 60% of American families use broadband service, and for this reason the number of VoIP service providers are growing rapidly. According to the latest statistic made by IDC, there are about 1000 VoIP providers in America.

At present, there are 4 million American families enjoying VoIP services with various kinds of devices and 1 million subscribers who get access to Internet-based VoIP telephone set with special devices. As anticipated by IDC, the number of VoIP subscribers in America will probably reach 12 million by 2009. Some even say that the number will reach 17 million by 2008.

China VoIP Conference and Exhibition 2005 being held successfully

On May 18, China VoIP Conference and Exhibition 2005 (the 7th) was held in the Great Wall Hotel of Beijing. About 1000 professional personnel in this industry registered and presented at the conference (the largest number up until now). They are fixed network operators, mobile operators and scientific institutions (China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom and Telecom Research Institute of Information Industry), famous manufacturers, (UT Starcom, Cisco, Texas Instrument China and Alcatel Shanghai Bell.) and international organizations (IPCC, SIP forum). China VoIP Conference and Exhibition has been held successfully for six times up until now. It is one of the most important meetings in the VoIP industry, which plays a big role in enhancing the development of the whole industry.

Vonage testing mobile VoIP service---fixed telephone service provider now entering the cell phone market

Vonage is now testing the Linksys Wi-Fi routers. In earlier time Vonage said that the customers were also testing the cell phone devices with Wi-Fi antennae.

Vonage also says that Wi-Fi is becoming more and more popular. Last Friday mobile phone operator Nextel said they had worked with Boingo and Wayport to provide a new service. Subscribers of such service can visit the 7000 hot points with any restriction, at a monthly price of 40 USD.