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83 Percent of Enterprises, 24 Percent of SMBs Have UC
About 83 percent of 745 North American enterprise and mid-market executives have unified communications capabilities in place, or are planning to, while 17 percent report they still are not interested, says Henry Dewing, Forrester Research analyst. We...
How the Global Telecom Business has Changed
A few statistics will illustrate just how much has changed in the global telecom business since 2000. Prior to the turn of the century, most lines in service used wires and carried voice. By 2007, 74 percent of all lines in service used wireless acces...
Local Resellers Sue AT&T Over Promotions
Local resellers of AT&T ILEC services have sued AT&T over the treatment of promotions offered by AT&T companies to new retail customers. The resellers contend that AT&T must give its wholesale customers, like them, the full value of any promotions that...
RCN Metro - Way to Go!
Broadband development has been selective and bumpy and there is still much to do, but the industry has been steadily growing over the past decade in many ways and directions. The base technology at the chip and processor level has all improved dramatica...
Telcos Inch Up, but Multi-Channel Video Market is Flat
AT&T and Verizon are slowly gaining share in the U.S. multi-channel video market, while satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network are holding their own, with Comcast and Time Warner Cable under a bit of pressure, but possibly facing more erosion over...
The State of Rural Broadband
Is it possible that rural broadband penetration actually is pretty close to the penetration of Internet users? In other words, is it possible that use of broadband in rural areas now is close to 100 percent of Internet users? New data from comScore...
The State of SME Communications Spending
Cutting costs, consolidating data centers and building IP contact centers are top concerns for SMBs in 2009; as are conferencing capabilities. But buying more managed services does not appear to be viewed as an urgent matter, though 40 percent already are...
Unified Communications Continues to Grow, but What Does That Really Mean?
Although businesses continue to tighten their belts when budgeting for spending on information technology and communications services, unified communications is one of the few business solutions that tops the priority list of enterprise investment, says A...
What Enterprises Are Buying This Year
It always is dangerous to make predictions about what enterprises will do when extrapolating from what they did last year, and what executives say they will do in the coming year. It is even harder when conditions are volatile in addition to being tough...
Wi-Fi Replaces Ethernet in Enterprise
Given that less than one-third of enterprise employees work in large corporate headquarters any more, most work these days is in branch offices, remotely from the field or at home offices. And of those who do work in headquarter facilities, 48 percent s...
