What's News? Merger Mania Continues in the US Telecom Market, Part 1: New Edge Networks Goes Earth Bound
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This aDRD (Announcement Data Rich Deliverable) is part of the Business IT, Business Telecom, Competitive Profiles and SMB subscriptions. This announcement takes a look at EarthLink's acquisition of New Edge Networks with commentary and analysis. Included in this announcement is a table on telecom spending by small and medium-sized businesses. Business IT expenditures consist of investments on services, equipment, applications and personnel to develop, manage and support a firms IT infrastructure and communications. This market consists of six categories: computer hardware, applications, network hardware, telecom, IT personnel and outsourcing & 3rd party services. Business telecom consists of business expenditures on telecom services, such as wireline and wireless voice, data services and VPNs, as well as managed services provided by a telecom operator. This category of IT spending also consists of business expenditures on wireline voice equipment, such as TDM PBXs and handsets, and wireless voice/mobile data equipment. Small Business (5-99 employees), Mid-Sized Business (100-999 employees). The Expert Guide for this deliverable is Stephanie Atkinson.Sources: Compass Intelligence’s segment and market forecasts, which include business expenditures, market demographics, and usage and adoption statistics are built using multiple sources, including proprietary Compass Intelligence research. These sources include, but are not limited to, secondary research, government data and statistics (e.g. Department of Commerce, Federal Communication Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics and US Census Bureau), primary research, vendor-based research and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers, where relevant. Compass Intelligence selects data sources to provide greatest degree of perspective on each market or segment, in addition to the highest level of data accuracy, stability, and consistency over time. Skip to top