Emerging Trends of VoIP
The telecommunication sector of UAE is one of the
most developed and technologically advanced sectors in UAE. The government has
played key role in fostering growth of telecom sector in the country.
Currently, the telecommunication industry of UAE is fast and effective across
all platforms with fixed-line, internet and mobile connectivity amongst the
excellent in the world. With the easy access of advanced technology and
changing lifestyle, the usage trends of telecommunication services are changing
drastically amongst the in UAE consumers, just from traditional calls to modern
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services to avail the benefits of low costs.
The
Development So Far
The UAE telecom sector has been regulated by country’s
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), which was established during
2003. Since the inception of TRA, the country’s telecom infrastructure has
become more sophisticated. It has also enabled competitive market environment
through giving license to second telecom operator ‘Du’, resulted into improve
communications to offer users more options and choices. Currently, the sector
comprises two service providers namely Emirates Telecommunication Corp
(Etisalat) and Du telecom (Du). Further, the TRA has taken several steps like
creation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development fund to
foster growth of the sector. It has also worked out other areas of growth like
mobile internet and 4G services to continue growth of telecom sector in UAE.
As a result, the telecom sector of UAE has registered
remarkable growth; making country as most forward countries in the Middle-East.
As per the latest statistics (November 2014) of TRA, UAE has 2,120,965 to 25.2% penetration of
fixed line telecom users the country. Furthermore, it has reported remarkable
growth in terms of mobile subscribers in the country. As on November 2014, UAE
has almost 16,964,652 numbers of registered mobile users in the country,
showing mobile penetration to around 202%. Looking to the internet users, the
country has total 8,807,226 internet users, majority of them are broadband
subscribers showing internet penetration to around 93.24% in the country.
The Emerging
Trends
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The key interesting fact of UAE is that, it has
almost 78% of smartphone penetration in the country, showing highest
penetration rates in the MENAP (Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan) region.
Furthermore, the country has around 81% of the smartphone users are in the age
group of 16-34 years. Being larger penetration of modern technology
(smartphones) with young age modern consumers, it is obvious that there is higher
usage of internet over the smartphones in UAE. Having multi-purpose
functionality, the smart phones are being used on varied purpose by the UAE
consumers like text & voice communication, VoIP calls, online shopping,
playing game, online financial transactions, watching videos, listing music’s, etc.
With the increasing internet penetration and easy accessibility
of modern technology (like PC and smartphones) the voice calling trends amongst
UAE consumers are shifting just from traditional calls to modern cheap calling
option known as ‘VoIP’ calls.
If you are living abroad and wish to talk with your
family or business professionals in UAE, VoIP might be the advanced option for
you to make cheap calls to UAE. In
fact, you need to take care in terms of selection of suitable calling card from
the reputed service providers like Skype, TringMe, etc. to make cheap international calls.
