The opening last year of the Boquillas Crossing between the U.S. and Mexico after a decade-long closure was made possible by fiber optic communications provided by Big Bend Telephone, the rural telco serving the Texas side of the border. The U.S….
Unified Communications
Cloud Computing Market Will be Bigger Than Most Think
It typically is difficult to estimate the size of a big a new market when that new market essentially cannibalizes existing businesses in the process. Unified communications has been that sort of market, since it logically includes or replaces many…
PBX Sales Slip a Bit Globally, Up in U.S. Market
Infonetics Research predicts “the PBX market is down slightly on a global basis in the second quarter of 2012, both sequentially and year-over-year, and enterprises generally remain cautious with their spending on telephony equipment.” “Sales of PBX systems in North…
Cost Savings Drive SIP Trunking Adoption
Among enterprises, use of SIP trunking has provided an average 33 percent cost savings over legacy access methods, a study conducted by Webtorials, and sponsored by Sonus Networks, has found. For 73 percent of respondents, “saving money” was among the…
U.S. Hosted PBX Spending Will Nearly Triple Between Now and 2016
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…
At Least 75% of Western European Businesses Still Buy Phone Systems Rather than Hosted IP Telephony
If you had to guess what percentage of businesses large and small, buy hosted IP telephony services, and what percentage buy phone systems, what would you guess? In Western Europe, three premises phone systems are purchased for every hosted IP…
Is Unified Communications a Glass Half Full, or Half Empty?
It never is terribly easy to quantify the size of the unified communications market, embracing as it does so many different communications and collaboration solutions. A new study by CompTIA of 500 executives has found that “collaboration” tools already are…
How Robust is Planned Spending on Unified Communications?
Unified communications has in some ways been a “fuzzy” concept, entailing as it does the unification of devices, applications, network access modes and media types. A new study by CompTIA of 500 executives has found that “collaboration” tools already are…
Comcast Leads SMB IP Telephony Ranking, Infonetics Research Reports
Some 10 years ago, some executives might have been forgiven for believing that U.S. cable TV operators would not be much of a force in either the enterprise or small and mid-sized business VoIP and IP telephony markets. At this…
SBC Market to Grow 20% Annually Over Next Five Years
Over the next five years, providers of session border controllers can expect annual growth of about 20 percent a year in terms of revenue, says Greg Collins, Exactventures principal. Sales of devices to enterprises might be growing a bit faster…
Hosted PBX Penetration Still in Single Digits, but Inflection Point Expected
At the risk of appearing a skeptic, I still do not find that the hosted PBX market is markedly bigger, in terms of revenue opportunity, than the older “Centrex” services cloud telephony replaces. Neither, apparently, does Solgari, which sells cloud…
Will 70% of U.K. SMBs be Using IP Telephony by 2013?
Almost seven out of 10 UK businesses will be using VoIP telephony services by 2013, a survey sponsored by Telappliant and conducted by Vanson Bourne has found. The study of 100 U.K. businesses from a variety of industries found that…
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