VoIP Solution provider vs service provider

VoIP solution provider including wholesales, CPE provider and System provider developing the product day by day. Every vendor compete with themselves rather than their competitors. When they do lots of effort on the product and proud to show their customer, service provider. Then, they found they are so really interested in the poroduct itself.
It is quite different from the mobile phone vendor. They are not so care about those service provider. They just care about what people, really end user, like. Of course, those mobile srevice provider still not so interested in the new tehcnology. Why, it just because the service provider only care about the voice traffic.
Back to the VoIP service provider, there are 2 kinds of service provider. ITSP and Carrier. Carrier own the existing analog voice service, while ITSP own nothing. If carrier promote the VoIP too much, it will be harm to their existing analog voice business. The ITSP service provider is the best candidate for those equipment provider. Yet, most of the ITSP does not have enough capital to provide free equipment to end user. It will be stuggle for the equipment provider to judge whether to lower price by cuuting their margin or keep the same price and build the barrier for the subscriber to join the ITSP's service.
In my opinion, those are not real good business. There comes the chance when enterprise solution become popular and mature. If a enterprise need a IP PBX which could replace their existing PBX and with boundle the service it could also make the toll saving call. Then it is good for business user and service provider. Eauipment provider could sell it with its own promotion and bring the customer to those service provider. The service provider will happy if they bring the solution.

Being tired of developing more than 20 voice products IP Phone, TA, Gateway, IAD, WiFi Phone, and even videophone, I did not find the future of the VoIP equipment provider. Up to this year, I saw lots of IP PBX with open source, Asterisk, SER, Tribox, and SIPX. I saw the futuer, The equipment provider will not so much rely on the service provider.
Kevin @ home May 17, 2007