Small business wireless spending to overtake hard line in 2012

It has always been predicted that small business expenditures on wireless services would someday exceed that of hard line or wireline voice.

The life blood of businesses’ efforts

"Connectivity has become the life blood of businesses’ efforts, however it is particularly crucial to small businesses as many operate without a brick-and-mortar presence to clients," says Greg Potter. "One can already see the strength of wireless in 5-9 and 10-19 sub-segments. It is the 20-99 sub-segment, nevertheless, that will maintain the dominance of wireline voice through the end of this year."

The In-Stat innovation, Small BusinessMarkets for Telecom Services: Wireline Voice, Wireline Data, Wireless, Cloud Computing, and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) in 20 Verticals provides forecasts of US business telecom spending for the 2010-2015 period with detailed segmentation by product category, size of business, corporate liable spending, individual liable spending, and vertical market.

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