Wholesale VoIP Market:

There is no doubt today that VoIP is taking over the telecom market, and every month increases penetration into services and industries. Competitive carriers are looking at the numerous ways to make money from this exploding technology, but there's a lingering question as to whether it is profitable to deliver VoIP in a wholesale model? Their customers, typically Service Providers, are looking for their ‘competitive advantage' into this ‘lowest price' race, leveraging within three key alternatives for packet telephony : “build” , “buy” or “rent”. Business aspect, there’s no need to invest tens of millions of dollars in wholesale VoIP to join in. Many Telecom Companies has done the work for you, and offers a complete, turnkey VoIP business, service and equipment. Now you can start wholesale VoIP business with virtually no investment and yet reap great dividends.

Wholesale VoIP Resellers:

In today’s world, Service providers seeking to deliver VoIP to as wide a customer base as possible may find that becoming a wholesale VoIP reseller is the way to go. Wholesale VoIP may be sold to both other service providers and to enterprises or residential customers.

Reselling IP telephony as a wholesale VoIP company is becoming an increasingly popular business model. For many companies, becoming a wholesale VoIP provider hits the sweet spot between profit and market control. Any firm with a well-established customer base is a good candidate for reselling wholesale VoIP.
Becoming a wholesale VoIP reseller is not a decision that should be taken lightly. It does, however, offer the potential of being very lucrative if done right.

Wholesale Consumer Demand:

An important characteristic of the industry is the complex segmentation of consumer demand and rapid change in the characteristics that are being demanded, both at the end customer and in the intermediate ones (wholesale customers).
Demand coming from ‘packed customers'? will be significantly different of the conventional telecommunications one, were telephony was the unique service to provide and differentiation was based on tariff-distance paradigm, being today's service offerings closer to data applications rather than telephony. Voice communication (and not old POT telephony) becomes the common feature into several communications applications and devices, but not the unique one.
Messaging, conference, collaboration, web contact centres, etc … requires a common communication format between parties, which is voice, implemented through VoIP technologies. Heterogeneous and rapidly changing customer demands and products are important dynamic influences on the evolving structure of the telecom industry, resulting into a new value-chain.
Telecommunication markets evolution will be driven by ‘packed customers' demand rather than networks, technology or finance, changing many decades rules into this industry.

Finance in Telecommunication Industry:

Finance institutions had been influencing Telecomm Industry since the beginning, due the business itself was characterized by huge investments, big market shares and bigger capitalization, influencing in many cases top management, who addressed their strategy towards ‘stock' opportunities rather long term and solid business models. WorldCom crash has been an example of this ‘financial market' pressure and wrong business management.
Today, the networks has been deployed. New scenario in Telecoms enable new players to deploy services over broadband without proprietary network and this new generation business will not be anymore capital intensive, let's say these will be innovation intensive.

U.S. VoIP Market:

The US market for VoIP advanced dramatically in 2006-2007, adding 3.8 million VoIP households in 2006, reports In-Stat: As a result, wholesale VoIP revenues grows quickly, as MSOs, Skype, and a myriad of new entrants most lacking network facilities enter the market and drive demand for telephony features and applications, the high-tech market research firm says.
As retail VoIP expands, wholesale VoIP will accelerate quickly, says Bryan Van Dussen, In-Stat analyst. The largest segment remains international VoIP, but we expect the market for local services to surge from 12% of all revenues to 27% by 2010.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

• Consumer VoIP adoption will drive wholesale VoIP revenues to $3.8 billion by 2010 from $1.1 billion in 2006.
• In-Stat finds small businesses are driving the growth of hosted services in the U.S. Hosted VoIP seats in the U.S. are expected to grow from 373,000 to 3 million by 2010. Revenues are projected to reach $2 billion.
• International wholesale VoIP termination/origination revenues is experiencing declining growth rates.
• Long-haul wholesale VoIP will experience significant migration of TDM services throughout the forecast period, and become a majority of the international market by 2009.
• Recent In-Stat research, In-Depth Analysis: Wholesale VoIP Forecast: Consumer VoIP Accelerates Demand (#IN0603371TX), covers the market for wholesale Voice Over Internet Protocol services. It provides a market forecast of US VoIP households and wholesale VoIP revenues segmented by main product categories. Analysis of the wholesale market is presented, including market drivers and barriers and three key trends: peering, bundling, and QoS.

Examples

• Air 21 Ltd UK Based VoIP provider and reseller. Outbound termination for UK and Worldwide. Wholesale termination, free unlimited SIP channels, Wholesale dialer traffic accepted, telemarketing calls. High margins for resellers and access to full product suit. For more information call us on 0121 314 1114.

• Allobox Low cost High quality voip provider. Become reseller and earn up to 50% of the benefits! Also VoIP phones reseller.

• Gafachi Telecom - Specializing in Call Centers and Carriers - Global, facilities-based Voice of IP Carrier offering US & International Termination and Toll Free & DID Origination. Competitive NPA-NXX rate deck, International Carrier rates, and DID channel pricing. 800.571.5711

• MediaCore Softswitch - software platform for VoIP wholesale which is unified point of control system and doesn't require any third-party solutions for operation.

• VOIP Service Provider in NYC,USA - Parcker Unified Communications a leading VOIP Service Provider Parcker Unified Communications located in NYC offering Wholesale and Retail VOIP Services , PBX Hosting, International Calling Cards @ lowest rates ever, Prepaid VOIP Services, e-Fax. Support Options either by Phone"T.1-855-OK-PARCKER", E-Mail "support@Parcker.com" Live Chat " https://parcker.com/UnifiedCommunications/l/chat.php " or Remote Control.Open Wholesale account, No Monthly Commitment required, all DIDs are Free, to Open Wholesale Account Visithttps://parcker.com/UnifiedCommunications/wholesale-1.html

• Telnyx offering service to Carriers and Call Centers with unique ability to cap rates and manage sub accounts. VoIP Carrier with US & International Termination and Origination. Competitive High Quality NPA-NXX rate deck, International Carrier rates, and DID channel pricing. Call us at 312.945.7420.

• VoIPInvite Inc VoIP Service Provider supporting SIP and H323 protocol for wholesale outbound termination to USA and Canada. $0.005x flat rates for retail calls $0.007x for predictive dialer / telemarketing calls with 6/6 billing. No fees / extra taxes, no Intrastate surcharges, no LNP dipped surprise charges, 1 npa nxx 1 rate or flat rate. Wholesale VoIP made easy and simple. POPs in USA and Canada. Like us on facebook -> http://www.facebook.com/pages/VoIPInvite-Inc/268363667785 Added on 01/01/2012.

• VoipSwitch - VoipSwitch is a software platform allowing for rapid VoIP services roll-out. It contains all necessary elements required in successful implementation of various VoIP services.

• vdi.net - Wholesale prices with great customer service. We only do good business. You won't pay more than 0.0066 terminating to the USA. Origination/Termination Toll-Free, Sip Trunks.

See Also

• VoIP Origination
• VoIP Termination
• VoIP Resellers
• VoIP Routes