Business VoIP Survey, July, 2008

It's time to publish the first Telecosm Business VoIP Survey, in which Business VoIP companies self-report about the rapidly growing Business VoIP segment of the market.  This is a little experiment I started about a month ago, when I published a blog post asking Business VoIP companies to give us a little more insight into their business. 

This market segment is served by many regional players and many of them are privately held, so it's sometimes hard to get a handle on how the segment is growing.  I hope this little survey will help to shine a little light on the industry.  This should be the first of many periodic editions of this survey, and I hope that other business VoIP providers will join in.  I am very thankful for the fourteen companies that did respond.

There were fourteen responses to the survey, but since CBeyond is public and an ackowledged leader in the space, I added them to the list as if they had responded to the survey.  Fifteen companies does not make a very comprehensive industry survey, but it's a good start and begins to paint the picture of this emerging market segment, and I expect that the publication of the first survey will attract the attention of other companies in the space and the survey will grow as I publish it again each quarter. 

Here are the size rankings of the thirteen companies in the report:

After CBeyond, it looks like Bandwidth.com and 8x8 are the next-largest challengers, at a about a quarter the size of CBeyond.  Junction Networks and M5 Networks are next, followed by a batch of mid-sized providers: Simple Signal, Zayo Managed Services, CommX, and Unity Business Networks. 

I'll publish excerpts from the survey over the next couple of days and will publish the entire survey on Friday. 

Here is the contact information for each of the survey respondents:

Note: you can see larger versions of either of the images in this post by clicking on the image.

Comments

[Kanon]

Voip theme and cheap phone calls today more relevant than ever. every month there are new voip providers, as well as sites that provider more info to us about providers and plans. is another new site, http://www.voippro.org which publishes news about voip. and i know else more than 100 blogs about voip.

[xocai]

Yes, its useful Business VoIP Survey....intersting...

[Van Johnson]

Where can I find the full version of the entire survey

[Tolga Sakman]

This is interesting Ike. All of these SPs are US-based though. I wonder if you can get the hosted B2B VoIP providers in Europe and Asia to participate as well.

[Ike Elliott]

Gregory,
With the exception of CBeyond, all of the published results from this survey come directly from the reporting companies themselves. The contacts for each company are listed at the bottom of the blog post.
Ike

[Gregory]

Where did you get the 79,000 seats vis a vis 8x8 (Virtual Office)?