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Excerpt:
TW Cable Surges, Qwest Slows in Ethernet Services
Telephony
Online,
02/06/08
by Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Cable is
rapidly making gains as a newcomer to the Ethernet services market,
while Qwest Communications is falling behind, according to new data
from Vertical Systems Group.
This week Vertical
Systems released market share data (as measured in Ethernet ports)
for the U.S. retail business Ethernet services sector at the end of
2007, an update from the same information released six months prior.
Time Warner Cable
emerged as a new name on the year-end list, having captured 3% of
the market at mid-year (companies with less than 5% share weren’t
named) and 5% at year’s end.
“TWC
had a major spike in Ethernet business in 2007,” said Rick Malone,
Vertical Systems principal and cofounder....
“Cogent had steady port growth throughout 2007 but lost share…due to
generally slower growth than the market and a growing concentration
of its sales in the wholesale segment,” Malone said. “Qwest didn't
secure enough large Ethernet contracts in the back half of 2007 to
keep up with the growth rate of the overall market. This resulted in
continued share attrition.”
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