It has always been predicted that small business expenditures on wireless communication services would someday exceed that of wireline voice communication.
That day will happen in 2012 -- as wireless service offerings becomes the largest category of telecommunications spending for small businesses, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Wireline data spending and cloud computing services round out the four high-growth spending categories.
"Connectivity has become the life blood of business efforts, but it is particularly crucial to small businesses as many operate without a brick-and-mortar presence to customers," says Greg Potter at In-Stat.
One can already see the strength of wireless in the 5-9 and 10-19 employee sub-segments. It is the 20-99 sub-segment, however, that will maintain the dominance of wireline voice through the end of this year.
Additional insights from the latest market study include:
That day will happen in 2012 -- as wireless service offerings becomes the largest category of telecommunications spending for small businesses, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Wireline data spending and cloud computing services round out the four high-growth spending categories.
"Connectivity has become the life blood of business efforts, but it is particularly crucial to small businesses as many operate without a brick-and-mortar presence to customers," says Greg Potter at In-Stat.
One can already see the strength of wireless in the 5-9 and 10-19 employee sub-segments. It is the 20-99 sub-segment, however, that will maintain the dominance of wireline voice through the end of this year.
Additional insights from the latest market study include:
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is set to grow 190 percent from 2010 to 2015.
- Overall, cloud computing services are the largest growth engines for small business telecom spending.
- Traditional TDM services are set to decline 15 percent from 2010 to 2015, a loss of over $1 billion.
- Retail trade, along with the hospitality and food vertical will account for over $11.5 billion in spending in 2010.
- The 20-99 employee size portion of the small business segment accounts for over half of all spending in small businesses (5-99 employees).