Is there a Viable Long-Term Role for Alternative VoIP Providers as Local VoIP Market Matures?
DUBLIN, Ireland –(Business Wire)– Nov. 10, 2004 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Fighting Goliath: Can Alternative VoIP Providers Survive?” to their offering Local VoIP providers can be broadly grouped into three categories: cable MSOs, major players (IXCs and RBOCs) and alternative VoIP providers. Alternative VoIP providers include the nontraditional players that are entering the telephony market with a bringyour- own-broadband strategy. These players are generally small upstarts. In the coming year, they will be facing the communications market leaders (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner). Can they survive? This report examines the competitive market to determine whether or not there is a viable long-term role for alternative VoIP providers as the local VoIP market matures. Alternative VoIP providers such as Vonage and many of the Vonage-like providers have a first-to-market advantage. In 2003, a number of these companies, dominated by Vonage, introduced V
