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China, the sleeping giant, has surpassed the United States in total number of broadband subscribers, according to new estimates by U.K. research house Point Topic. If that sounds a bit like deja vu all over again, we note that telecom consultant and... [read more]
While hosted IP PBX is all the rage in some quarters, nearly half of the companies surveyed in a recent TelecomWeb Web-based Quick Poll aren’t interested, and fewer than 10 percent actually have a hosted service in place today. A huge 40.6... [read more]
A somewhat surprisingly high 39 percent of iPhone users have been using their phones for business purposes, according to a study done by The Nielsen Company of the iPhone’s first year. But, as usual, the devil’s buried in the details, and it would... [read more]
A surprisingly large 30.5 percent of respondents surveyed by TelecomWeb said they already plan to use the Sprint/Clearwire Xohm mobile WiMAX offering. Asked simply “Will you use Clearwire’s Xohm,” the largest single response was... [read more]
According to the recently released “InfoTrack for Unified Communications: 2008 Enterprise and SMB Market Forecasts,” total enterprise revenues for unified communications (UC) will grow at an average annual rate of 15 percent during the next five... [read more]
Business use of hot spots nearly doubled in the last half of 2007, and the total use of hot spots in Europe is poised to overtake the United States, according to the latest semi-annual analysis of the market by mobility management expert iPass. iPass... [read more]
A majority of Americans who currently use cellphones or smartphones now say it would be hard for them to give up their mobile devices, but three out of five are ready to trash their landlines, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life... [read more]
The average entry level price for broadband around the world crept up in the final quarter of last year, according to research house Point Topic. The increases, for the most part, were relatively tiny but still just enough to bear closer scrutiny. The biggest... [read more]
The number of both xDSL and cable broadband ports shipped in the final quarter of 2007 surged, salvaging what could have been a disastrous year for both technologies. According to estimates by Ovum RHK, Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) port... [read more]
The onslaught of Carrier Ethernet has begun, according to a Web-based survey of TelecomWeb readers, and not even one in five say his or her company “never expects” to adopt the technology. In contrast, just shy of 40 percent said their companies... [read more]
Perhaps envious of the BlackBerry crowd, mobile-phone users surveyed recently by Webcredible indicated the services they’d most like to get on their cellphones. One was pretty obvious, but the other came as somewhat of a surprise. Almost... [read more]
A surprisingly large 41.5 percent of TelecomWeb readers, in a Web-based poll conducted during the past month, say they now think hosted IP PBX services are appropriate for companies of any size. When asked “what is the maximum-sized company that... [read more]
With heavy hitters IBM and Microsoft among the many vendors offering enterprises the tools with which to implement several different flavors of enterprise social networking, exactly how many staffers actually take part in any such activity – blogging... [read more]
Average residential DSL downstream speeds surged between the second and third quarters of this year in several regions in the world – North America wasn’t one of those regions – driven by the introduction of new very high speed services... [read more]
The percentage of online American adults has inched up a tiny 2 percent in the past 17 months to 79 percent, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive, which found Internet usage increasing across all economic and educational strata and age groups... [read more]
The global enterprise Ethernet service market is exploding, growing by 32 percent last year to $9.81 billion and continuing on a 21-percent-per-year growth curve to reach an expected $31.268 billion in 2012, according to a new analysis by research house Ovum... [read more]
DSL continues to dominate the world broadband picture, with a 65.87-percent market share, according to research done by Point Topic for the DSL Forum, which says the percentage is virtually unchanged from a year ago. Cable broadband comes in a fairly... [read more]
Rural American telcos now are dishing up broadband using nearly every technology known to man or beast, according to a study by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA). The association, which represents almost all of the smaller... [read more]
A cable operator has broken into the top tier of the hotly competitive business Ethernet business for the first time, research house Vertical Systems Group said in a mid-year look at the market that reveals shifting shares and only seven large players left... [read more]
The rate of growth of broadband in China has slowed dramatically, according to research house Ovum, leading to fears of both a digital divide between city and rural areas and of financial peril for China’s telecom operators. Ovum still expects... [read more]
The vast majority of TelecomWeb readers back the use of part of the 700 MHz spectrum set to be auctioned later this year for a nationwide broadband network as a way of achieving interoperability between public-safety organizations. Both recent events and... [read more]
Fewer than one third of TelecomWeb readers chose to spend money on a “convergence” feature phone with what are essentially non-business features, according to the results of a recent Web-based survey. With all the hype surrounding the capabilities... [read more]
Fiber reaches to only some 13.4 percent of business buildings in the United States with 20 or more employees, according to new research from the Vertical Systems Group Emerging Networks Service (ENS) research program. On top of that, based on building size... [read more]
A large majority of folks are willing to pay more for wireless USB-equipped products, perhaps as much as between 15-percent and 25-percent more, according to a survey run by Israeli wireless USB silicon vendor Wisair at the recent Consumer Electronics Show... [read more]
The prospect of a single wireless phone that can switch between wireless broadband telephony – i.e., VoIP – and traditional GSM or CDMA cellular is the technological telecom combination that has folks most excited these days, according to a poll... [read more]
Packet transport equipment sales in the third quarter of this year grew by a tiny 2 percent quarter over quarter to $2.3 billion. The total was up just 9 percent year over year. “With the exception of Cisco, who was buoyed by strong orders from... [read more]
Given the immaturity of the Internet Protocol television (IPTV) market, it should come as no surprise that the world’s analysts and manufacturers sometimes have radically different estimates regarding how fast the market will develop. The issue... [read more]
With the rollout of IPTV – seen by many as the primary driver of residential broadband bandwidth demand – heavily dependent on the ability of broadband providers to get the needed franchises to start service, a poll of TelecomWeb readers shows a... [read more]
The growth rate in broadband during the second quarter of this year was the lowest since records have been kept, according to a new study by research house Point Topic. That’s not all bad though – in part, it reflects market saturation as more... [read more]
Leadership in the U.S. retail business-Ethernet-services market continues to seesaw as the seemingly unending stream of mergers and acquisitions, spiced by the occasional big deal and new market thrust, kept the market in turmoil. According to a new... [read more]
By the very slimmest of margins, visitors to TelecomWeb.com think 802.16e-based wireless broadband – popularly dubbed WiMax – is facing an uphill battle to unseat Wi-Fi mesh in the exploding wireless broadband market. What we asked our... [read more]
The entry-level price for DSL dropped by a huge 9.3 percent in the second quarter, the largest percentage price drop seen since the third quarter of 2002, according to researchers at Point Topic. The decline is nearly four times that normally seen, and it... [read more]
Speculation now is rife over just why Verizon has decided not to buy out Vodafone’s 45-percent share in Verizon Wireless. At TelecomWeb, we think we know why. The deal, like so many, fell apart over the valuation of the property. Succinctly... [read more]
One-third of all U.S. adults are now using broadband to access the Internet, according to new research by the GfK Group’s Roper Consulting arm – and about 58 percent of them are using DSL, the research house said, in findings that contradict the... [read more]
The number of broadband lines in the world grew to 229 million by the end of the first quarter of this year, up 36 percent from a year earlier according to a new study by research house Point Topic, and Europe set the pace. Meanwhile, DSL continued its... [read more]
Enterprise users are sitting around waiting for the availability of triple- or quadruple-play services or ubiquitous wired or wireless broadband access, according to a Web-based poll conducted by TelecomWeb. A majority of those polled named the two as the... [read more]
The quarterly growth rate in broadband usage in Australia stalled in the last quarter of 2005, according to new numbers from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), with growth of only 12.1 percent. This is down from a touch more than 18... [read more]
According to new numbers compiled by comScore, the United States has finally caught up to Western Europe in the adoption of 3G, the result of a 80.1-percent surge during the past year in the number of users who own 3G wireless devices. comScore, whose... [read more]
There is no doubt that lawyers play an essential, if somewhat vilified role, in the telecommunications industry, and the number of attorneys working in Washington, D.C., has exploded during the last three decades. As of the end of 2005, the District of... [read more]
Who would have foreseen this a few years ago: Eastern European pay-TV markets looking to direct to home (DTH) to boost customer numbers? Just like cable operators! In... [read more]
British mobile users are more likely to use their cellphones’ so-called “social networking” applications – essentially such wireless data applications as uploading a video to the Internet – than their counterparts in France... [read more]
Less than 10 percent of users would be willing to pay to watch television shows on their cellular phones, according to the majority opinion in a web-based poll conducted by TelecomWeb. The results stand in sharp contrast to claims we’ve reported made by... [read more]
According to InfoTech, approximately 2.5 million enterprise Cellular/WLAN dual-mode phones will be sold in 2010. This is a conservative forecast, compared to some others circulating at this time. However, this current projection balances the... [read more]
According to TelecomWeb’s sister division InfoTech, approximately 2.5 million enterprise cellular/WLAN dual-mode phones will be sold in 2010. This is a conservative forecast, compared with some others circulating at this time. However, this current... [read more]
According to IMS Research, the Asia Pacific region is likely to be a hotbed for digital TV (DTV) and high-definition (HD) activity in the coming years. In fact, the group predicts that the region will overtake the Americas in terms of share of worldwide HDTV... [read more]
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