{"id":107,"date":"2006-08-12T03:38:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimansion.com\/luisbenavides\/index.php?entry=entry060811-233841"},"modified":"2006-08-12T03:38:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T03:38:41","slug":"aol-shows-up-in-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/12\/aol-shows-up-in-voip\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL shows up in VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my first<\/span> post<\/span> I<\/span> talked about the high<\/span> amount of competitors that Skype was gaining each day, even though they represented a threat, they were not big enough. But today I<\/span> read about the huge American<\/span> leader AOL getting hands on it.<\/span> The offer is:<\/p>\n

“Free<\/span> inbound calling along with your own phone number with its AIM Phoneline service. For<\/span> an additional $9.95 a month, you can get unlimited calling to 30 countries” (Taken from: George<\/span> Ou’s Blog).<\/p>\n

This is really a disruptive offer in price and in services, but it<\/span> doesn’t affect Skype so much. AOL is a regional<\/span> company and just serves the American<\/span> market. Even if USA is the biggest Skype market, it<\/span> just represents the 9% of its user base. I<\/span> found in the EuroTelcoblog how is the Skype’s user-base distributed in the main<\/span> countries. The information in<\/span> parenthesis is the position and percentage 2 years ago (2004):<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/span> United States –<\/span> 9.13% (1,<\/span> 10.3%)
\n[2] Poland – 7.87% (3, 8.78%)
\n[3] Taiwan –<\/span> 7.80% (2, 9.24%)
\n[4] China –<\/span> 6.75% (6, 5.89%)
\n[5] Germany – 6.06% (5, 6.18%)
\n[6] Brazil – 5.85% (4, 7.24%)
\n[7] France – 5.62% (7, 5.53%)
\n[8] United<\/span> Kingdom – 3.50% (10, 2.94%)
\n[9] Netherlands – 3.47% (8, 3.50%)
\n[10] Japan –<\/span> 3.17% (12, 2.61%)
\n[11] Spain – 2.64% (15, 1.82%)
\n[12] Israel – 2.36% (11, 2.94%)
\n[13] Canada<\/span> – 2.22% (13, 2.46%)
\n[14] Belgium – 1.95% (14, 2.10%)
\n[15] Italy – 1.91% (18, 1.44%)
\n[16] Denmark – 1.73% (9, 3.07%)
\n[17]<\/span> Sweden – 1.62% (16, 1.76%)
\n[18] Turkey – 1.59% (not ranked)
\n[19] Switzerland – 1.42% (19, 1.22%)
\n[20] Australia – 1.41% (17,<\/span> 1.46%)<\/p>\n

Skype made its move at the beginning and now it’s<\/span> evenly distributed, different to AOL or Vonage. This new<\/span> move is a hit against Vonage. In my opinion, Vonage is going to be sold or will die soon, they are over expending in marketing<\/span> (as<\/span> shows their income statement in their investor section of their website) and they can’t maintain their user-base with their actual prices.<\/p>\n

I<\/span> give three months for<\/span> something to happen, just wait and see if I’m wrong \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my first post I talked about the high amount of competitors that Skype was gaining each day, even though they represented a threat, they were not big enough. But today I read about the huge American leader AOL getting hands on it. The offer is: “Free inbound calling along with your own phone number … <\/p>\n

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