VoIP adoption booming.(BAY AREA NEWS)

The number of residential VoIP customers (not including PC-to-PC services) more than tripled to 4.2 million in 2005 and is expected to grow by a compound annual rate of 43.9 percent through 2009, reaching 18.0 million. This was on the heels of an eightfold increase from 150,000 at the end of 2003 to 1.2 million at the end of 2004, according to the Arlington, Va., Telecommunications Industry Association's 2006 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast.

The U.S. broadband market has grown from 4.5 million subscribers in 2000 to 41.3 million subscribers in 2005 and is