Daily News 2005/10/28

Analyst: VoIP service time accounting for 78％ of Asian market

In-Stat forecasts that in 2009 there will be 50 million VoIP subscribers in the world, with China and Japan being the leaders on Asian market. The American market will lag behind the European market and the Asian market.

Keith Nissen, senior analyst of In-Stat told CNET on 19th of this month, that China has a lot of pre-paid subscribers of VoIP. In-Stat has much confidence in the growth of this kind of subscribers. In fact, the taking time through VoIP in China has been much longer than that of other Asian countries in 2004, accounting for 78% of the Asian market.


eBay's president forecasts: free-of-charge telephone service available in 3 to 6 years

According to foreign medias, Meg Whitman, President and CEO of eBay forecasts at a videoconference this Wednesday that in the coming 3 to 6 years people will enjoy free-of-charge telecom service. That means, the telecom operators will make money in other ways, such as advertising or charging the "transaction fee". However, he didn't indicate how the traditional telecom operators would charge the so called "transaction fee".

As Meg Whitman says, considering the developing trend of Skype in the next a few years, the number of telephone subscribers that pay telephone fee will decline gradually, and there will be more and more people enjoying VoIP service. From then on, telephone service providers will not take the telephone fee as the major income any longer, but will earn money in other ways.

Whitman's forecast reflects the development strategy of eBay. After spending 4 billion USD acquiring Skype, Whitman was criticized by some financial experts. However, some people is still optimistic on this. They think eBay is in a gamble, trying to be a leader in the field of network telephone, online auction and online payment by combining the above three kinds of service.

In Sept. Skype said that the total number of subscribers has reached 57 million. The new owner of it hopes that it can earn 60 millionUSD in 2005, and 200 million USD in 2006.

China Unicom Beijing adopting VoiceCode's telecom recording products in the system expansion

Recently, China Unicom Beijing expanded its customer service system, replacing some of the old equipment. In this expansion, VoiceCode's multi-media recording system VCLog System was adopted by Unicom Beijing again due to the stable performance and good cutomer service as a high-quality telephone recording solution based on the switch platform of Huawei.