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Excerpt:
Business Ethernet Services Market in Flux
Networking World Blog,
Network World, 08/07
By Jeff Caruso
The top providers of
business Ethernet services jostled for position in a hot market
during the first half of this year.
Research firm Vertical Systems Group this week updated its
market-share numbers since the last time we checked in on
metro Ethernet. AT&T (now with the BellSouth acquisition under its
belt) slipped a bit, but managed to hang on to first place. In 2006,
AT&T had 13.6% of the market, and BellSouth held 8.5%. But after the
merger, the whole is less than the sum of the parts, with a combined
market share of 19.5% down from the 22.1% that the two companies
held last year.
Meanwhile, Verizon
Business and Time Warner Telecom managed to increase their share,
with Verizon Business extending its reach from 12.2% to 15.8% and
Time Warner Telecom moving from 10.7% to 13.7% of ports.
Vertical Systems Group said that Cox Business has moved into
fourth place with 8.9% and now qualifies as one of the
"top tier" of U.S. business Ethernet service providers.
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