Research and Markets : Quantifying the Costs of Voice over Internet Protocol within Australia

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22317) has announced the addition of Research Note: Quantifying the Costs of VoIP to their offering

Quantifying the Costs of VoIP is the first detailed analysis of Australian VoIP service prices based on the full range of industry data. Having compiled 42 residential VoIP plans and 33 PSTN plans for analysis as part of its Instant Benchmark service, the author then re-rated a real consumer telephone bill using the prices from these plans to calculate the Industry Low, Industry Median, and Industry High VoIP and PSTN plans for a series of Consumer Baskets.

The surprising result is that even when the bill analysis only re-rates call charges, the most expensive VoIP services are more expensive than the median PSTN prices for all the consumer baskets used in the study. If the cost of broadband service and a PSTN access line (necessary to support an ADSL connection) are included in the analysis, VoIP only offers significant savings if the user has the time, patience and knowledge to find the cheapest plans in Australia.

Quantifying the Costs of VoIP also found that the existing price competition in PSTN services would deliver services at an overall cost comparable to VoIP for many Consumer Baskets.

VoIP only shows a clear, consistent, and undeniable advantage for users with very large numbers of toll calls — for example, with high numbers of National or International calls. The Research Note presents the impact analysis of expanding the customer's calls in these three categories.

Contents include the following:-


Introduction
- Methodology
- Australian Providers Only
- Our Tariff Analysis
- Hardware Excluded
- Free Calls Excluded
- Treatment of Local Calls
- Plan Selection
- GST

PSTN to VoIP Comparisons
- Comparison - Call Charges
- Including Broadband Services
- Is Broadband a Sunk Cost?



Impact Analysis: Adjusting Call Volumes
- Impact Analysis: Expanding International Calls
- Adjusting International Destinations
- Adjusting Local Call Duration
- More Long-Distance Calls

Conclusions
- Hardware
- Free Call Bundles
- On-Costs
- Variable Prices
- Conclusions
- International Calls
- Complexity
- Hidden Extras
- Bandwidth Charges

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Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
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