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You probably knew the U.S. was behind other major markets in wireless technology. But did you know it's also behind the curve in VoIP? According to an upcoming report by In-Stat, the U.S. market and European VoIP markets are headed in opposite directions. The main difference is that in Europe, the traditional phone companies are playing significant roles in the growth of VoIP. In the U.S., the telcos are trying hard to stop it. And they're doing it so successfully that the top U.S. VoIP services are often more like conventional phone service than like VoIP.

The numbers are telling. Last year, incumbent European telcos lost 10 million fixed line subscribers. But there were 14 million new VoIP subscribers, and of those, the telcos' VoIP operations picked up 3 million. In other words, the phone companies were trying pretty hard to evolve. In the U.S., the incumbents lost 4.5 million wireline subscribers. But while there were 4.4 million new VoIP subscribers, the telcos only got 300,000 of them. In other words, they weren't trying very hard at all.

Read the whole article here: http://www.voip-news.com/feature/europe-vs-us-instat-062207/