New market figures from analyss firm TeleGeography find that the number of U.S. subscribers to VoIP services increased by 18 percent to a total of 8.2 million users during the third quarter of 2006. Great news for the industry, right? Yes and no: it’s also the second straight quarter in which the growth rate for VoIP services in the U.S. slowed. Nonetheless, growth is growth: VoIP accounted for $732 million in the second quarter of 2006, compared to just $298 million in the second quarter of 2005.
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AOL Reports Win In Spam Fight
“As of November 2004, AOL received an average of 2.2 million complaints daily from its more than 24 million subscribers, down from 11 million complaints in the same period last year.
The daily average number of e-mails blocked by AOL’s spam filters fell 50 percent to about 1.2 billion e-mails in late 2004 from a peak of 2.4 billion in 2003. “
Read more at CNN/Money
MSNBC also posted the same story, but claims that the news by AOL “contradicts other spam studies released recently, and some analysts were skeptical of AOL’s claims. “.
Netflix To Deliver Movies Over Internet
“Our strategy is to get huge in DVDs and then expand into downloads,” Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings told Reuters on Friday. “When we get to 5 million or 10 million subscribers, eventually what we spend on postage becomes a prize for the movie studios.”
Money saved by sending movies directly to consumers’ homes via the Web could be plowed back into buying more DVD titles to meet customer orders.
Read the full story at Reuters.
Cingular Ups Ante In AT&T Wireless Bid
If successful, the deal would vault Cingular from its perch as the second-largest wireless provider in the U.S. to the largest with 55 million subscribers, while hastening the expected consolidation in the U.S. wireless industry.
British carrier Vodafone declined to further the bidding war after reportedly offering $38 billion for AT&T Wireless. In a statement, Vodafone said it pulled out of the auction process for AT&T Wireless after “concluding it was no longer in shareholder’s best interests” to continue bidding.
Read the whole article at Internet.com.
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