Deregulation ⇒ New operators

Lots of new actors appeared as operators:

Verizon/MCI (formerly Worldcom) -http://www.verizon.com/
Level3 http://www.level3.com/ Links to an external site.
- (3)Voice, an IP based long distance service using Softswitch technology
- Hosted VoIP services for 10 to >100,000 extensions
Vonage - http://www.vonage.com Links to an external site.
- 2.5 million subscriber lines as of June 30, 2009 [Vonage 2009]
TringMe - http://tringme.com/ Links to an external site.
- Web based VoIP (using Adobe’s Flash)
- VoicePHP (http://voicephp.com/)
In 2014, Voxbone (http://www.voxbone.com Links to an external site.) carried 4 billion minutes of voice traffic using Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) service http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150115005101/en/World%E2%80%99s-Largest-Telcos-Rely-Voxbone-Enable-Global
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See “VoIP Providers List”, last accessed 2016.08.31, http://www.voipproviderslist.com/

Slide Notes

Vonage Holdings Corp., Company Fact Sheet, August 2009 http://ir.vonage.com/factsheet.cfm Links to an external site.

Transcript

[slide29] Another thing that's happened in the last decade is deregulation. And deregulation did a whole bunch of things. Now remember deregulation didn't mean the end of regulations. It just meant a new set of regulations. But one of the things that came out of that is a whole bunch of new operators. So companies like Verizon merged with MCI, formerly WorldCom you had Level 3 appear and their whole business is basically to interconnect other telecom operators. Vonage, which introduced voice over IP handsets that customers would have in their home. People like Tringme that use Adobe's Flash to be able to provide a voice over IP service. VoxBone and others. So a whole bunch of new people appeared on the scene.