Japan VoIP 2004-2008 Forecast and 2003 Brand Shares

This IDC study highlights that VoIP technology is now in a period of change. VoIP technology is a potentially profitable market not only for VoIP vendors but also for data vendors, software vendors, and communication carriers. This study presents the results of research on the size and vendor market share of Japan's enterprise VoIP device market in 2003, with a forecast until 2008, as well as the Enterprise User Survey.

The size of Japan's enterprise VoIP device market in 2003 was 66.719 billion Yen. The company that topped the market was NEC, with a market share of 29.5%. In second place was Oki Electric, with a market share of 29.3%, lagging behind NEC by a mere 0.2%. IDC forecasts that based on an average annual growth of 12.7% from 2003 to 2008, Japan's enterprise VoIP device market in 2008 will amount to 121.399 billion Yen. In terms of products, IP Phone's CAGR was the highest, at 32.2%. Junko Yairi, network device research manager of IDC Japan, comments on Japan's enterprise VoIP device market, "The main objective of enterprises using VoIP networks is for cost reduction. In the future, rather than focus on reducing communication cost, enterprises should look at VoIP network implementation as a means of reducing lost opportunities for revenue gain. Also, diverse approaches to VoIP technology are surfacing, such as application interaction or mobile centrex, and others. Communication carriers as well as vendors of software, VoIP devices, mobile phones, wireless LAN, and other devices that are quick to establish a framework for collaborative effort will emerge winners."