Cavell Research Shows Customers Leapfrogging SIP to a Hosted VoIP Solution

Cavell Group’s latest IP Voice market reports show unexpected market dynamics, with the SIP Trunking market performing slower than expected and the Hosted VoIP market continuing to grow strongly.

Cavell has seen strong growth across all segments of the Hosted VoIP market in the last six months. The market has shown 11% growth reaching a total of 2,423,123 Business Hosted VoIP seats, while the SIP Trunking market has only grown 9.94% in the last six months to a total of 2,113,528 SIP trunks. This is a slowdown in the migration from ISDN to SIP Trunking and may show that customers are leapfrogging SIP to move directly to a hosted solution.

In the previous six months (June to December 2015) the SIP Trunking market had grown by 13.73%, hence during these six months the market has suffered a slowdown, which Cavell believe is due to a few key factors, such as BT’s announcement of 2025 as the End-of-Life of the ISDN Network having yet to stimulate customers and providers to make immediate migrations. Also, the market for SIP is becoming increasingly competitive from a price perspective, leading service providers to drive customers toward more lucrative Hosted VoIP solutions, and lastly, easy-to-migrate customers have already moved, meaning the remaining customers may need specific technical or commercial considerations.

Matthew Townend, Director of Research & Consulting at Cavell stated:

“There is probably not one Call Centre in the land that has not migrated from ISDN to SIP, but the remaining approximately 50% of the market set to migrate, is going to need more compelling commercial and technical reasons to move.”

“If providers do not build a migration plan for their ISDN customers, they are likely to see the Hosted VoIP providers move them to their services before they react”, he added.

If you are interested in finding out more about the UK Hosted VoIP and SIP Trunking markets, the reports have been released for purchase today and are available on our website: www.cavellgroup.com/uk-research-reports. or contact Francisca Dinga francisca.dinga@cavellgroup.com