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Almost half of Québec now using voip telephony (9)

March 20th, 2008 · by Heri · Mobile

A Léger Marketing study reveals an impressive rise of voice Over Ip telephony in Québec in 2007. Figures in 2006 showed that only 16% of subscribers were using voip, but the new study shows that the rate is now 44%, nearly a +200% increase in just one year.

The figure is surprising, as voip technology was only introduced in the province in 2005, and it was then estimated that the technology would take over land-based telephony only in 2010.

If Québec experiences the same growth in 2008, then legacy telecom operators like Bell or Telus have a lot to worry. Companies that offer voip-based telephony services include Videotron, which offers to replace your telephone line via cable, Rogers, plus a myriad of third-party service providers like Kovasys, Groupe Neotech, Aheeva or Savoir-Faire Linux which offer to install Asterisk or another solution so that you’d get an entire phone system through your Internet connection.

These companies, especially Videotron, highlights value-added services like cheaper long-distance calls, and more options, like accessing your voicemail through the web, which would be impossible with a classic telephone land line.

It strikes me that in Québec, some technologies see impressive growth rates, seen nowhere in the world, like voip or broadband Internet, while other technologies like mobile Internet are still waiting to be adopted by most Québecers. Go figure…

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