Posted: 26th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
Research group Analysys has stated that demand for business broadband Internet access services is set to rocket during 2003, fuelling sales growth rates for both Telco's and ISPs:
In its latest report, Business Data Services: growth opportunities and forecasts 2002-2007, the Cambridge-based analyst predicts that European business data service revenues will grow from 36bn (£24.64bn) in 2002 to 52bn (£35.61bn) by 2007.
"Demand for these services is driven by a need to provide enterprise-wide connectivity for internet protoco [IP] based applications, growing volumes of email, increasing numbers of remote workers, migration to integrated voice and data, and the adoption of video services," said Margaret Hopkins, the report's author.The
VNUNet item points out that DSL services will push leased lines out of the market, while businesses move toward Ethernet (fibre) technologies.