CNN has a story on the Asian VoIP market.
Asia has been the market companies in the application server and softswitch market have been targeting since the late 1990s. The carriers there know how it can only speed growth, the issue is does anyone in those countries want VoIP? Likely the younger generation. But how it is sold, regulated, or if it is just a PSTN replacement has really yet to be determined.
Those markets need something new and different, where infrastructure costs don’t hinder the advancement of the people’s ability to grow and prosper from where I sit.