PriceWaterhouseCoopers predics that 27 percent of Australians will have an IPTV service by 2016. That might not strike you as startling, except that entertainment video subscriptions historically have been much less popular in Australia than in many other markets. Right…
Telco and cable revenue trends in the U.S. market continue to illustrate a fundamental principle some of us believe is foundational for both telcos and cable companies working in developed markets. And that fundamental reality is that any service provider…
About 33 percent of people who have “cut the cord” on their video entertainment subscriptions would not buy again, even if prices were cut in half, a study by TechBargains.com has found. That opinion illustrates the level of growing dissatisfaction…
If Google Fiber winds up being a profitable venture, as Google says it is aiming to achieve, it probably will have to operate its business much as does Sonic.net, a facilities-based Internet service provider that sells 1-Gbps broadband access for…
Sometimes a year over year revenue decline is “self induced.” That isn’t entirely why Verizon fixed network revenue dropped about $300 million, year over year, but Verizon argues much of the decline is intentional. Verizon estimates that about 65 percent…
Iliad, which launched its “Free Mobile” service in January 2012 in France, has been wrecking havoc on its competitors France Telecom, SFR and Bouygues Telecom. Vivendi SFR, for example, anticipates a 2012 earnings decline of 12 percent. Average France Telecom…
U.S. enterprises and consumers are expected to spend more than $47 billion over the next five years on Ethernet services provided by carriers, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. With metro-area and wide-area Ethernet…
U.S. spending on unified communications technologies will increase by an average of 10 percent per year, led by spending on hosted IP telephony services, which will almost triple between 2011 and 2016, estimates InfoTrack. Among U.S. enterprises, defined as firms…
The proposal by Verizon to acquire virtually all of the wireless spectrum owned by cable companies and enter into collaborative agreements whereby the firms would cross-market each other’s services and jointly develop shared technology, is another key moment in the…
Enterprise spending on public cloud services to grow from $91 billion worldwide in 2011 to $109 billion in 2012, according to Gartner. By 2016, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion. “Business process as a service (BPaaS) still…
Despite growing threats of online competition, some 87 percent of U.S. households nationwide subscribe to some form of multichannel video subscription service, according to Leichtman Research Group. That is up from 80 percent take rates in 2004. As you might…
How long will it be until there are calls for more value-added services and “more value” in the machine-to-machine (M2M) market? Not much longer, if a new Frost and Sullivan analysis is correct. One driver is that many M2M opportunities…
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