About 1.8 million UK users have tried out voice over IP in the last 12 months and an additional 1.9 million will do so in the next 12 months, according to a new report.
Continental Research’s Spring 2006 Internet Report suggests that the doubling of demand is being driven by positive experiences of the technology.
“Most users are quite satisfied and will use it more in the future,” said Continental associate director James Myring.
The VoIP vendor of chose is Skype which accounted for 48 percent of users who had made voice calls over the internet. Aside from Microsoft’s MSN Messenger with 20 percent, no other supplier made it to double-figure market share.
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