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A new report from Juniper Research (News - Alert), which discusses the mobile voice market, analyzing and projecting the market for the entire mobile voice ecosystem and how it will develop over the next five years has concluded that in a span of five years, the number of mobile VoIP minutes will rise from 15 billion minutes in 2010 to 470.6 billion by the year 2015.

Although the mobile VoIP traffic is estimated to rise steadily in all the regions during this period, the rise will be particularly visible in the developed markets, because of the increasing 3G and 4G networks.

Voicing the concern of mobile operators, who feared losing traffic to Wi-Fi networks, Anthony Cox (News - Alert), Senior Analyst at Juniper Research admitted that Wi-Fi Mobile VoIP was potentially damaging to operators as the traffic bypassed mobile networks totally. The loss in revenue would be in the region of $5 billion globally by 2015.

Other options for mobile VoiP carriage are via carrier alliances with mobile VoIP providers, or through an app downloaded to the handset or smartphone.

The report also published other interesting findings. According to it, the traditional operators in the developed markets would overlook the rivalry and go ahead and forge partnerships with VoIP providers

BT announced  the expansion of its hosted Internet Protocol telephony service to business customers in the U.S. 

The service uses BT (News - Alert) and Cisco's cloud computing-based technologies to bring converged voice, mobile and data services to every desktop in an organization. The service which was launched in 2009 has already seen success with several business organizations in the U.K.

Based on Cisco's (News - Alert) Hosted Unified Communications Services platform and BT's Onevoice UCC portfolio, the service can be used by business organizations in reducing upfront investment costs if they are looking at adoption of unified communications on a global scale.

The hosted IP telephony is a collaborative offer based service. It has been designed for rapid deployment and the services can be extended to both large and small sites. Through these services, BT now offers its customers significant savings as well as operational predictability.

Communications holding company AT&T announced that industry analyst firm Gartner (News - Alert), has positioned AT&T in the Leaders quadrant of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services, North America report.

AT&T says this report confirms its continued investment in and commitment to a comprehensive portfolio that utilizes AT&T networking leadership and mobility capabilities.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant is a guide for midsize and large multinational companies to identify and evaluate vendors that deliver IT services in support of enterprise communications and connectivity, according to officials at Gartner. Vendor and customer experience weigh heavily in the Leaders quadrant.