Daily News 2006/04/03

VoIP will experience a dramatic growth in 2008

Analysys pointed out in the report on China VOIP Market Supervision Policy Tendency Forecast that VoIP is the trend of development. The reason it is restricted by the government is that the conditions are still not mature. All the policies are made to guarantee fair competition, maintain the benefits of the country and the users, and prevent repeated construction.
Opening VoIP market in China in 2006 and 2007 will bring trouble to the fixed network operators in cash flow and make them unable to construct 3G network. While in 2008 the conditions will be mature, because:

1. 3G will greatly reduce the fee of service, and fixed network needs low-cost NGN technologies in the competition;

2. The construction of 3G network will come to an end, and the circuit switching equipment of fixed network will be depreciated further, and the fixed network operators are well prepared to reduce the fee and shorten the distance with VoIP fee, so it is unnecessary to restrain the price competition;

3. After the realization of FMC, there will be new monopoly enterprise emerging on the market, and the management level will have to open the fixed network to prevent monopoly. Market participants shall make adjustment in the coming one or two years (such as establishing cooperation relationship with the operators) for the development of VoIP.

40% of the call centers in the Asia-Pacific Region will invest in IP technologies

Research shows that about 40% of the call centers in the Asia-Pacific Region are planning to invest in advanced IP techniques. Over 80％ of the informant say that the demand for multi-function call centers (voice, e-mails, IM, SM, Web) are increasing rapidly.
Result of the research reveals that in the recent a few years the IP-based techniques are more and more reliable, and reliability-related problems are no longer the main obstacles for the popularization of IP technologies in this region.　

Eicon strengthening the cooperation relationship with Sino Voice to develop domestic voice application marekt

Eicon Networks Corporation, the world leading provider of enterprise network telecom products, announced on March 27 that it would dedicate itself to developing the market of enterprise-oriented voice solutions in 2006. It is forecasted that Eicon's voice solution business will experience a significant growth, and will amount to 30% of the total sales value of the company in China. Eicon announced to enhance the cooperation with Sino Voice to establish the best voice application platform for the customers.