WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 65 / 356
addresses, because the service of the telephony requires resources for treatment of
necessary telephony signalization, for originated calls and for finished calls, guiding plan,
numeration plan, billing plan and integration with the fixed and mobile conventional
telephony network.
There are a number of reasons for the increasing interest of phone companies and VoIP
providers in the emerging market. The countries, in general, lack substantial infrastructure
for broadband, have a high cost for traditional phone service.
Companies investing in VoIP across Latin America and South America are anticipating that
they will generate revenue in several ways. There will be call handling, both inbound and
outbound communications. There will be monthly subscriptions, with bundled minutes for
national and international calling. There will also be calling cards – for the corporate and
consumer markets.
VoIP growth is driven by the emergence – generally – of digital subscriber lines. Latin
America is now emerging as a major digital subscriber line (DSL) market, adding 1.2 million
subscribers from January to September 2004, a growth in subscribers of more than 72
percent, according to the DSL Forum.
Many VoIP suppliers in Central and South American and in other countries and some of
them are: Deltathree, Interlink Ecuador, LatiNode and Turinco (a publicly traded company
controlled by investor Sir John Baring, recently acquired Arvana Networks), Interlink,.
Brazil is leading the way, gaining over 620,000 DSL subscribers, and three countries,
Mexico, Argentina and Peru, have experienced more than 50 percent growth since the
beginning of the year.
A total of 85.3 million DSL subscribers globally exhibits a growth of more than 39 percent so
far in 2005, according to the latest data produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst
Point Topic. DSL – the world's most popular broadband technology – added another 24
million subscribers in the first nine months of 2004, as more than half a million people each
week are choosing DSL around the world.
Also there are many VoIP suppliers in Brazil and in other countries and some of them are:
Free VOIP, GigaFone, GigaVoip, CMSW Telecom, DELIXFONE, Intervoz e LIGVoip.