In a period in which the COVID-19 pandemic brought the US Ethernet market largely to a halt, seven providers qualified for the Vertical Systems Group mid-year 2020 Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard, the firm says. The top VSG carrier Ethernet rankings, in…
The enterprise WLAN market in the United States declined by 9.5% year over year as the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and slowed investments, according to IDC’s Worldwide 2Q 2020 Wireless LAN Tracker. That decline was largely offset by consumer WLAN…
The FCC has proposed a $164,000 fine against internet provider Barrier Communications Corp, which uses the brand BarrierFree, for filing false Form 477 broadband availability information. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because Barrier is the company whose inaccurate reporting…
More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
Although it may not be the most advanced option, voice calling was rated the most important communications option for teleworkers during COVID-19, according to a COVID-19 teleworkers communications report from Global Wireless Solutions. One third of smartphone users surveyed said…
Due to the economic impact from COVID-19, smartphone shipments are expected to drop 9.5% this year to 1.3 billion units, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). Nevertheless the researchers anticipate strong 5G smartphone adoption in years…
The COVID-19 impact on telecom business revenues hasn’t been as bad as financial analysts at MoffettNathanson expected it to be. But the worst is yet to come, according to the researchers. While U.S. gross domestic product dropped at a 32.9%…
Direct-to-consumer video offerings are bad news for pay-TV, according to a new report from MoffettNathanson Research. Direct-to-consumer, or DTC, offerings include services such as Disney+ that involve a content provider offering content directly to consumers on a subscription basis over…
With large corporations like Comcast, Charter and AT&T dominating the market, at least 49.7 million Americans have only a single internet provider available to them, according to a new broadband monopoly report from the Institute for Local Self Reliance, an…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact broadband usage, according to OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI). The report found that during COVID-19 upstream internet traffic rose 5.3% between the ends of the first and second quarters. This, the firm said, was probably…
Wyoming and Nevada are the states most likely to be negatively impacted by COVID-19 as a result of stay-at-home orders and the work-at-home trend that have accompanied the pandemic, according to COVID-19 work at home research from the Federal Reserve…
Nearly 17 million new U.S. jobs (16.7 million) were created during the nine-year period when 4G wireless networks were deployed and became a key driver of the U.S. economy, according to a new report from wireless industry association CTIA. At…