15,000 paying subscribers in Canadian VoIP Marketplace
September 20, 2004 - 9:15am — bmann
Jeff Pulver writes:
According to last week's National Post VoIP story, there are about 15,000 people in Canada who pay for voice over broadband services across multiple providers.
Looking at the Free World Dialup user demographics, there are about 15,000 people in Canada who have a Free World Dialup account.
Jeff Pulver: FWD is amongst the leaders in the Canadian VoIP Marketplace
Sorry, Jeff, but I have to disagree. If we use these sorts of numbers, we can probably just as easily say that iChat users are amongst the leaders in the Canadian VoIP marketplace. I have a FWD account but I've only used it perhaps twice right after I got it -- it's just not easy enough to use.
Of course, I'm still pulling for Jeff when he speaks to the CRTC.
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PeopleCall, chosen by The Pulver100
PeopleCall, chosen by The Pulver100
PeopleCall is the only spanish company of services VoIP (Voice on Internet) chosen for pulver.com to form part of The Pulver100, the list that, every year, elaborates the group of telecommunications with hundred companies most distinguished from the market of Voice IP.
PeopleCall is the only Spanish company included in the ready The Pulver100 that, every year, pulver.com elaborates and that it assembles to hundred companies of VoIP's industry (Voice on Internet) that register the highest rates of growth and that contribute in major measurement to the development of the market of the new technologies. PeopleCall appears in this list together with companies of great international projection, since it is the case of Vonage or Skype.
Throughout last year, PeopleCall has supported conversations with the principal operators of broad band with a view to the offer of a Flat European Tariff of voice and information, has extended his scale of products and raised his number of users up to the half million. The company has consolidated his positioning in the European and Latin-American market, opposite to his more direct competitors in the supply of services of communications IP: Vonage and Net2phone. All these circumstances have allowed to PeopleCall to turn into the only Spanish company that forms a part of The Pulver100. "2004 has been the year of the voice due IP, to a great extent, to the labor of companies as PeopleCall, which has helped to stimulate the market of the communications IP thanks to a complete offer of services" affirms Jeff Pulver, Pulver.com's CEO, "we are proud to include PeopleCall in The Puver 100 in 2004 ".
From his appearance in September, 2002, The Pulver 100 only gathers in his list to those private companies that represent the future of the communications and that register out-standing indexes of growth. The chain of value represented by the companies gathered in The Pulver100 differs substantially from the traditional vertical model of telecommunications, centring on a model of industry who relies on opened interfaces and on a wide conectividad.
For Herme García, PeopleCall's general manager, this election "represents a recognition as pioneering company in the introduction of services of voice IP in more than thirty five countries and to the labor developed in the last five years in the field of the communications on Internet ".