VoIP Start-ups – They Come-n-Go!

VQManager | November 21, 2006 | 1 min read

Author: KK

We all have heard this several time, “VoIP is the business to be in.” We also note there are many companies mushrooming the VoIP space. But at the same time there are many vanishing from the scene, fast and un-noticed!

myvoipprovider.com provides an insightful list of 85 service providers who shutdown operation in last 15 months, it also predicts that coming 12 months will bring up more such sad news.

FierceVoIP observes, ten percent of them die in very first year itself; this ten percent will become norm until unless some big company start acquiring small companies and cites the example of Skype acquiring Sonorit Holding.

Om Malik blames it on how business houses are fighting on price, and hardly have any distinguishing features!

We will be observing this and take a count who survives, its difficult to predict when companies like AOL?s Total talk closed operation within a year and Vonage coming out of red looks to far fetched.