The demand for VoIP related consumer gear is going to jump quite nicely in the first quarter, according to some reports from Taiwan. It doesn’t surprise me since most players are pushing fancy wifi VoIP phones and adapters to the consumers in the US.

Shipments of voice-over-IP (VoIP) customer-premises equipment (CPE) from Taiwan are expected to climb 25% sequentially in the first quarter of 2005, according to the Taiwan-based Market Intelligence Center (MIC).