I am stuck inside with a ankle and bored out my brains and started having
thoughts about the future

Just wondering if anyone has any predictions for the residential VOIP in 12
months time?
My predictions :

VOIP will start to come into the mainstream like Internet did 8 years ago.
most users will just want a product which works and needs no hacking about
with port forwarding.
So people like Vonage who have advertising money behind them and offer a
simple box solution will
start to dominate.

Internet ISP who have been doing very little will get into VOIP big time,
they have customer base which they
can use and can premote better quality sound by having less latency to
servers

Internet Service Providers will start playing silly buggers with VOIP users
to ensure their VOIP solution is used
T&C clauses and degration of voip data

BT fightring hard againt anything to do with VOIP especially the ability to
have ADSL without a live telephone number

SIPGATE still having voicemail in beta, by this time sipgate would have lost
all the potential it has had / does have and other
companies would have passed it by.

Standard SIP sevice providers turning more to hosted PBX suppliers for the
same cost/ or very low fees, voipfone/voiptalk have already started
this

bickering still occuring on uk.telecome.voip

Regards,

Rolf