In China, broadband IP phone has become a new major means for operators to share in voice market especially distant call market. Each of the telecoms companies in China has its own soft switching equipments to offer voice services. It's estimated that various value-added data services are also to be carried out under the fierce competition. In 2004, there were tens of thousands of operation level traditional switching equipments retired, which caused huge equipment gap that was to be made up by the soft switching equipments. Besides, many private communication networks are also running voice, data and video services in China. All this shows that China has possessed the fundamentals as well as the opportunities and market to vigorously develop broadband IP phone. As demand for new communication services from users increases gradually, it is believed that broadband IP phone will soon become a bight point in China's communications field.

Broadband IP phone is based on IP technology, broadband network and IP terminals. It's a new type of telecommunication service platform integrating voice and data. Presently broadband IP phone implemented in China has completely abandoned traditional double-line wire. Using VoIP technology and steering clear of CPN, telecommunication operators, offering broadband telephone service, only need to construct a business platform integrating voice, data and video, then users can communicate with any telephone terminal by way of relative terminals. Because broadband telephone needs less switching equipments than traditional telephone, the operation cost is greatly reduced, thus operators have the natural advantage of fee-charging. In April 2005, AOL formally carried out VoIP business in 40 markets throughout the U.S. Microsoft has also entered the market by cooperating with AT&T, Amdocs and Sylantro earlier in July this year. Although greatly impacted by VoIP, the traditional telephone companies would not stand by. Verizon, the biggest telecoms in the U.S., has carried out its VoIP service. SB and BellSouth have both announced that they are trying to get a share in this market. VoIP has a bright future, but the competition is getting fierce as the giants enter the market successivly.

VoIP has been growing rapidly in recent years in China. It's estimated that by 2007 VoIP call will amount to 210.11 billion minutes with revenues of RMB 52.53 billion yuan. Low fee is the direct reason that leads to the rapid development of distant IP call. In terms of distant call, 2003 and 2004 saw a growth rate of 5.9% and 26.3% respectively in traditional distant call, 24.4% and 11.4% in mobile phone distant call, 40.7% and 39.0% in distant IP call. VoIP calls account for 46% of total telephone calls, which were 37.2% and 42.2% in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

VoIP is considered to be one of the most potential trends in the Internet field in the coming years. And it may topple down traditional telephone business. VoIP is easy to implement. With broadband access and a broadband telephone worth only several hundred yuan, users can enjoy extremely cheap overseas calls that cost only 0.3-0.6 yuan per minute. Its advantages and prosperous future have attracted huge capitals. Some big consortiums and international Internet giants are going to enter VoIP business. The market scale and development trends of VoIP have become a common focus of attention for various competitors in this area. Under this situation, we produced this report, which analyzes VoIP market scale, service types, growth trends, and growth of VoIP equipment suppliers. This report provides accurate information and scientific materials for telephone companies to discern opportunities and adjust operation strategies under the fierce competition, and for industrial investors to choose their investment strategies wisely.

2.Trends of Overseas VoIP service market
2.1 Japan
2.2 United States
2.3 Europe

3.Trends of Main VoIP Products
3.1 VoIP network framework
3.2  Soft switching market
3.3 IP-PBX market
3.4 VoIP gateway market
3.5 IP Phone market
3.6 General trends of VoIP products
3.7 Global trends of broadband phone
3.8 Main development directions of global broadband phone

4.VoIP Client Equipments Purchase Methods in Major Regions
4.1 Japan
4.2 United States
4.3 Europe
4.4 Summing-up of distribution ways of VoIP terminal products

5.Development Trends of Global VoIP Market

6.VoIP Services in Developed Areas
6.1 Japan
6.2 United States
6.3 Europe

7.Current Status of VoIP in China
7.1 IP Phone development status in China
7.2 Main VoIP services in China
7.3 VoIP service fees in China

8.Development Trends of VoIP Services in China
8.1 Growth trends of IP phone services in China
8.2 Life cycle of IP phone services in China
8.3 Development trend of IP Centrex services of Chinese enterprises
8.4 Development trend of IP Centrex users and services in China
8.5 Development trend of enterprise level VoIP market in China

9.VoIP Client Equipments Purchase Ways in China

10.IP Centrex Market Development and Strategies
10.1 Main drives of VoIP business
10.2 Growth trends of IP Centrex market in Asia Pacific area
10.3 Comparison between IP Centrex and IP PBX, TDM Centrex
10.4 Analysis of values brought by IP Centrex to end-users
10.5 Analysis of values brought by IP Centrex to operators
10.6 IP Centrex business development trend
10.7 Target user group of IP Centrex
10.8 IP Centrex business operation channel
10.9 Recommendations to IP Centrex operation

11.Global Cases of IP Centrex
11.1 Wide Area IP Centrex network construction of a carrier in China
11.2 Transnational enterprises implement various services using IP Centrex
11.3 Wide Area IP Centrex network construction of a carrier in Singapore
11.4 Hosted IP PBX network of a Japanese carrier
11.5 Wireless IP Centrex network of a British carrier