Articles - Buyers
Managed, Hosted IP Tel Gaining Ground in Asia
Managed IP PBX and hosted IP solutions are gaining traction slowly in the Asia-Pacific enterprise market, particularly with mid-sized companies of 2,500 to 9,999 employees, says Yankee Group Senior Analyst Agatha Poon. More than 60 percent of mid-sized...
UC: Enterprises, SMEs Different
Enterprises are more strategic in their thinking about unified communications while small and mid-sized organizations are more tactical, say Robert Arnold, Current Analysis senior analyst and Dustin Kehoe, Current Analysis principal analyst. In part, th...
Communications a First Priority for First Responders
There certainly are much larger niches and less specialized buyers, but one would be hard pressed to find a vertical market that appreciates the benefits of new technologies and advanced communications more than first responders and public safety administ...
Disaster Recovery Bigger Issue for SMEs
For small and mid-sized businesses and organizations, information technology has gotten more complex. Though price continues to be the primary obstacle for SMEs when adopting new information technology, staff shortages persist and now SME technology manag...
Managed Services Increasingly Important for Service Providers Serving SMEs
Small, medium and large enterprises might not dramatically increase their buying of managed VoIP, security, local area network and other services in 2008. But unless something dramatically unforeseen occurs, they will keep increasing the amount of spendin...
Want Higher Consumer ARPU?
What’s the best way to double the average amount of money spent by a consumer when signing up for a voice, video, broadband access or mobile phone service? Sell them in a retail store location or over the phone, not online, a recent Compete survey s...
Will Mobility Disrupt SME Market?
Though users haven’t embraced fixed mobile convergence (FMC) in any big way so far, there already is evidence that mobile substitution might be the bigger trend. About 11 percent of U.S. households already use wireless as an exclusive calling method...
Signs of Saturation
Is the mass market broadband market saturated? It might be. Consider recent survey data generated by a recent J.D. Power and Associates survey, which suggests that just two percent of dial-up Internet access customers upgraded to broadband in the last 1...
Swimming Upstream
Until very recently, the quality and quantity of upstream capacity on a broadband network was merely an afterthought for most users and providers of consumer high-speed Internet services. After all, according to figures from Ellacoya Networks, upstream...
Video's Impact on Premises Bandwidth
The impact of IP video on enterprise networks might not drive as much wholesale upgrade activity as one initially might think, if the results of a new survey taken by the ChangeWave Alliance are correct. To be sure, three-quarters of respondents to the...
