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The Business of Broadband: Access and Applications
Format: Spiral-Bound, 382 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-15-6
Price:
$495
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FEATURES
Features
- Analyzes existing broadband market conditions and discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the broadband industry today and in the future
- Examines the implications of new research on the evolving needs of broadband users and how those needs may best be satisfied
- Identifies how adequate pricing policies and billing systems can assist broadband service providers in achieving profitability
- Highlights emerging broadband applications that will alleviate the margin pressures of selling basic access
- Presents the most recent market predictions for the near- and long-term viability of select broadband applications and services
A Sampling of Questioned Addressed in This Report
- How has the telecom industry capitalized on its infrastructure for delivering broadband services?
- What are the market opportunities that exist for residential and business broadband services?
- How can operators continue to profit from bandwidth provisioning?
- What is the role of revenue assurance in the profitability and success of broadband services and content?
- How much are customers willing to pay for their basic communication connection?
- Would customers be willing to pay increased access fees in order to finance the increased capital spending required to provide sufficient levels of service?
- Do the necessary technologies and applications exist to permit carriers to deliver quality content to their broadband subscribers?
- What kinds of applications can technology providers enable that cut costs, leverage the technology already in place, add new value, and do not disrupt existing networks and services?
- Which applications can be truly enhanced or enabled by operating in a networked broadband environment?
- How will next-generation solutions allow service providers to be successful in offering profitable new services to their customers?
- What are the potential impacts of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)?
- Is video over digital subscriber line (DSL) a revenue-generating opportunity?
- What video-on-demand (VOD) services will users purchase in future, and how much are they willing to pay for them?
- Why have so few carriers enhanced their data offerings with on-demand features?
- What are the revenue potentials for and the barriers to managed services?
- What are some fundamental factors that will stimulate the penetration of wireless data services?
- What are the strategies and deployment philosophies that must be adopted for wireless data services to gain market success?
- Why aren't broadband data, video, and voice services being deployed as a whole?