{"id":1468,"date":"2006-04-28T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2006-04-28T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T13:01:00","slug":"life-after-voip-for-ld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Life after VoIP for LD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telehop.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Telehop.gif\" alt=\"Telehop\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My partner in running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomsummit.com\">The Canadian Telecom Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbicanada.com\">Michael Sone<\/a>, likes to point out that there are still profitable niches to be found in the Canadian long distance business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/cnw\/060428\/cor_telehop_05_earnin.html\">Telehop released its numbers<\/a> this morning and proved that Michael is right. Volume of calls and minutes are up, and so are their revenues and net income. Looking at the numbers, you can see that the company is transforming the traffic mix, growing the number of customers despite the popular view that international traffic would all migrate to &#8216;free&#8217; calling like Skype.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Telehop has grown revenues by more than a third year-over-year to more than $20M. Nice to see some folks are still making money from long distance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Telehop\" rel=\"tag\">Telehop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/voip\" rel=\"tag\">VoIP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Michael+Sone\" rel=\"tag\">Michael Sone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Canadian+Telecom+Summit\" rel=\"tag\">Canadian Telecom Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/long+distance\" rel=\"tag\">Long Distance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mark+Goldberg\" rel=\"tag\">Mark Goldberg<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner in running The Canadian Telecom Summit, Michael Sone, likes to point out that there are still profitable niches to be found in the Canadian long distance business. Telehop released its numbers this morning and proved that Michael is right. Volume of calls and minutes are up, and so are their revenues and net &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1468\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life after VoIP for LD<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Life after VoIP for LD &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My partner in running The Canadian Telecom Summit, Michael Sone, likes to point out that there are still profitable niches to be found in the Canadian &#8226; 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