According to a report conducted by Equation Research, in a survey of
small businesses, ?small businesses are still in the early broadband
adoption stage, with most survey participants indicating that they
have had high-speed for only one to two years.?
?While the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world in DSL adoption ?
preferring to use the cable modem method for speed ? American small
businesses have embraced the second place broadband. A report from
Probe Group is further evidence of the growing DSL demand among
business, finding a growth spurt from 830,000 business lines in
service at in 2003 to 1.5 million business customers by 2008. Revenues
will skyrocket from $964 million to $1.9 billion, and small businesses
will represent 85 percent of all lines by 2008.?
?Those that were considering a move to broadband cited among their
reasons: outgrowing their dial-up (53.1 percent); increase efficiency
(46.9 percent); spur productivity (30.6 percent); keep up with the
industry (24.4 percent); and cost savings (20.6 percent).?
Source:
Small Businesses Get Up To Speed
January 27, 2004
Small Business Computing
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3303921
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DSL Usage Expected To Grow Among Small Businesses
Market forecast to reach nearly $2B by 2008
Tech Builder: Jan 2004
http://www.techbuilder.org/news/59201603
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According to Deloitte & Touche ?overall broadband adoption will
continue to grow in popularity within the United States, small
businesses will be motivated to migrate towards broadband as the
demand for faster email and Internet access increases, while pricing
falls and connection speeds rise.?
Deloitte & Touche LLP : Published: 1/27/04
http://www.instat.com/press.asp?ID=837&sku=IN030787SB
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?SBs increasingly favor high-speed broadband access and affordable
connectivity solutions. Rapidly falling prices allowed DSL and T1/T3
Internet access to command 31% and 33% year-over-year growth,
respectively. Apart from this, enhancing employee productivity and
reducing latency between transactions will drive a significant amount
of investment in upgrading enterprise Intranets over the next 12
months.?
Source: AMI Partners' study of US Small Businesses
October 1, 2003
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Qdu-AoYrTQUJ:www.ami-usa.com/ami/sections/Press/093003_USSMB.doc+high+speed+internet+adoption+by+small+businesses+2004..2010&hl=es
http://www.ami-usa.com/ami/sections/Press/093003_USSMB.doc
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?Small businesses access the Internet in a variety of ways.
Thirty-eight percent use dial-up services, 26 percent use cable
modems, 21 percent use DSL, 4 percent use satellite, 4 percent use T1,
and 3 percent use wireless broadband. All in all, dial-up is still the
most popular means for small businesses to connect to the Internet.?
Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs236.pdf
Is high-speed Internet access really that important for a small business?
?According to the Small Business Administration, over half of small
businesses seem to think so. According to a recent survey, 73 percent
of small businesses have some type of Internet access, with 58 percent
of them subscribing to high-speed Internet.?
http://www.napsnet.com/business/63016.html
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HIGH ?SPEED INTERNET CONNECTIONS UP BY 55 PERCENT
?High-speed lines connecting homes and businesses to the Internet
increased by 23 percent during the second half of 2002, from 16.2
million to 19.9 million lines, compared to a 27 percent increase
during the first half of 2002. For the full year, high-speed lines
increased by 55 percent. The report includes individual state data,
with the percentage of zip codes with high-speed access by state
serving as one of the more reliable statistics in this area.
Download report here:
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/hspd0603.pdf
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?The number of homes and small businesses connected to the Internet
via high-speed service climbed to 28.2 million. That was up from 23.5
million in the first six months of 2003.?
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=P4436_0_6_0_C
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58% of small businesses have broadband
?The Small Business Administration (SBA) reports while most small
businesses in the US (98%) have wire-line telephones, and a vast
majority have mobile phone lines, 58% have high-speed Internet and 38%
have dial-up access.?
IT Facts
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P903
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?Despite its economic and political might, the USA is falling behind
other nations in arming consumers and small businesses with a key
economic tool: high-speed Internet access, also known as broadband.?
USA Today: January 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-01-19-broadband_x.htm
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?Broadband penetration among U.S. SMBs has nearly doubled in the past
two years ? increasing from 1.78 million to 3.41 million SMBs.?
Source: Top 10 Trends for Small, Medium Businesses in 2004
http://www.sdcexec.com/article_arch.asp?article_id=5359
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Market Report
Forecasts of Access Line Competition in the Local Exchange
Lawrence K. Vanston, Ph.D.
December 2003,
180 pages,
Sponsored by the TTFG, ISBN 1-884154-21-2
Price: North America $495*
Figure 1.8 Forecast Residential and Small Business Broadband Connections
http://www.tfi.com/pubs/r/r02003_falcle.html
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