Stats from In-Stat

In-Stat’s got more numbers for us: To wit, “9 percent of U.S. Households Now Use a VoIP Telephone Service, Up From 8 percent at the End of Q3.”

Specifically citing “cable operators and Vonage” in “driving continuing growth in the US residential Voice over Internet Protocol telephone market,” high-tech market research firm In-Stat reports that over 10.6 million US households now have at least one active VoIP user.

In a pair of research reports – “US Residential Voice-Over IP Market Dynamics and Market Tracker: Market Summary Q4 2006” and “US Residential Voice-Over IP Market Dynamics and Market Tracker: Comprehensive Results and Analysis Q4 2006” – In-Stat went on to report that:

• The emergence of cable operators as a dominant market force has slowed the growth of the client-based VoIP market.

• Skype was the sole VoIP provider showing gains in the segment during the fourth quarter.

• More than 61 percent of active residential VoIP users reported discontinuing or replacing a traditional phone service, including 76 percent who use only a network/ATA-based service such as that of Vonage.

• Among users of client-based VoIP services, 52 percent of VoIP calls are international long distance, while network/ATA-based VoIP users report only 6 percent are international long distance.

• 51 percent of residential VoIP users employ the service for business and personal calls, while 4 percent use it exclusively for business calls.

For additional information on the summary and the comprehensive report or the service, check out the In-Stat website.