Articles - Sellers
Cable Continues to Lead VoIP Charge
The North American consumer VoIP market (not PC calling) continues to be a cable operator story. North American cable VoIP subscriptions grew 83 percent year-over-year, reaching 11 million customers at the end of 2007, says Yankee Group analyst Patrick...
U.S. Carrier Capex Will Peak in 2009
U.S.-based telecommunications carriers and cable operators will continue to increase their capital expenditures until 2009, reaching more than $70 billion by year-end 2009 before declining slightly in 2010 and then declining slightly in 2011 and 2012, s...
Cable Necessity; SME Invention
If necessity is the mother of invention, then necessity compels cable operators to make an assault on the small and medium business voice market. In fact, the SME voice and data opportunity is an adjacent market. In some markets 20 percent of SMEs already...
Things Break
NextLevel Internet, Inc., a Calif.-based mission critical Internet access provider, has announced the full availability of its flexible hosted voice service, NextLevel Voice, aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises. In some ways, the “ordinary&rd...
Multimedia, Video Changing VAR/Integrator Channel
Video now is changing the value-added reseller and premises data networking business, executives say. Consider Denver-based Strategic Systems, which provides data networking and high-end audio-video installation, design and maintenance services. The co...
When is Analog and PRI a New Capability?
If a company with a national footprint and lots of enterprise business customers announces that it is adding support for analog voice lines and Primary Rate Interfaces, you might initially wonder how in the heck that can be a new capability. But if you...
More Money From SIP Trunks Than Hosted PBX?
It is conceivable that service provider revenues from IP trunk services (SIP or H.323 trunking) will outstrip revenues from hosted private branch exchange services in 2008. Yankee Group Senior Analyst Taher Bouzayen has argued that bandwidth products wi...
Triple Play's Inconvenient Truth
Triple-play packages may not be quite as “sticky” as carriers had hoped, suggest the results of a new global survey conducted by KPMG. Only 15 percent of respondents to the survey on consumers and convergence, for example, indicated that their...
Carrier Capex Up
In many respects, carrier and cable executives won’t appreciate the trend, but 2007 will mark a recent record high year for communications company capital spending, says Infonetics research. In fact, says Credit Suisse analyst Paul Silverstein, U....
Carriers Get Customer Conscious
Customers want what they want, and global carriers either can supply that demand or watch it go somewhere else, carrier executives say. In many ways that is a refreshing change for an industry that traditionally has told people what they could have, how t...
