Why does SIP use TCP?

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There are many Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs) that are now using a large number of headers in their SIP messages. Even with the compact notation, many of them have SIP messages which are too large to transmit using UDP. As a result, TCP must be used. See this link for more information.