> I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or > any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever.
Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP suggests is the case in the US, but they are doing something. > It is quite a different market here. I can get POTS services over the > same copper from, I'd say, about 5 different companies. Maybe more, I > have not counted. I guess the competition already available on the > copper would largely preclude anything but the cheapest VoIP service. For UK national calls, which pretty much all the POTS providers are offering for "free" (read "bundled"), I tend to agree - especially given that the POTS providers who *aren't* BT (Residential) are largely having to lease at least the last mile copper from BT (OpenReach). The Vonage TV ads that I've seen in the UK are pitched at offering cheap / free / bundled international calls, and the target market for that I believe is both different and smaller. Regards, Tim.
