Home Business Users More Likely to Adopt VoIP

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6:25 am on September 8, 2006 | Category: Business, VoIP

A new study by IDC suggests that households with home-based businesses are considerably more likely to adopt VoIP telephone technology than other residential users.

At the present time, 39.1% of corporate home offices and 23.7% of independent home businesses in the U.S. either use or are planning to use VoIP in some way. This compares to just 10.8% of other households.

IDC predicts that this trend will continue to develop over the next year, with home based businesses more than twice as likely to adopt VoIP than other households.

“Home offices will adopt VoIP communications at a faster rate than U.S. households overall. Although cost savings are important, features such as convergence with mobile phones will be increasingly important to home offices in the long run,” commented Chris Hazelton, a senior small business analyst with IDC.