Let me be totally honest with you. I’m on holiday on an island near Italy and internet connectivity is far from ubiquitous. I struck a deal for Vodafone mobile internet but there’s not really a lot of coverage over here, much less 3G. Luckily, a hotel nearby just gave me their WEP password without wanting anything in return. Even though I’m not even staying there. So here’s a link to a great hotel in Procida if you’re ever going there. But I wanted to point you to some info about the European business telephony market.

“New analysis from Frost & Sullivan European Business Telephony Markets, finds that the market shipped more than 21 million lines in 2005 and estimates this to reach 25.5 million in 2011. […] Approximately 83.7 per cent of lines shipped were IP capable, out of which around 4.3 million were IP users with some kind of IP end point. […] Notably, vendors in the European business telephony markets have stepped up their efforts to endorse session initiation protocol (SIP)”

Read the full article here.

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