On the cover of the most recent BusinessWeek: Telecom, Back from the Dead. Describing the telecom bust earlier this decade, the article goes on to say:
Over the past year, however, the telecom industry has roared back to life. Credit a steady rise in appetite for broadband Internet connections, which enable easy consumption of watch-my-cat video clips, iPod music files, and such Web-inspired services as free Internet phoning. Indeed, this year broadband adoption among U.S. adults is expected to cross the important threshold of 50%. Capital spending is on the rise as companies invest to build high-speed networks. Private equity players are placing enormous bets on the industry, such as the $8.2 billion that Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group agreed to pay for networking gearmaker Avaya on June 5. And the glut in broadband communications capacity is all but gone.
About half of the Internet's transmission capacity was going unused in 2002. Today that pipeline has almost doubled in size, and yet the unused portion is down to about 30%.
Good article. Yes, broadband internet connections have made a comeback in recent years, particularly T1 Internet Service because it provides the fastest internet connection.
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Posted by: Lawrence | April 08, 2008 at 11:23 PM