Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) continues showing steady gains in the US residential telephone service market.
New data from In-Stat show that more than nine million US households now have at least one active VoIP user, with many households reporting the use of more than one VoIP service.
Interestingly, half of the VoIP users reported using their residential VoIP service either in part or in whole for business purposes, including more than 40% of client-based VoIP users.
Dividing the service between current providers, Vonage and Time Warner Cable continue neck and neck among facilities-based VoIP subscribers, with an estimated 1.7 million and 1.6 million active households, respectively.
On the other hand, Skype dominates among client-based VoIP services, with 2.1 million active households, while Microsoft gained more than 1.1 million active households as of the end of third quarter 2006.
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