{"id":17872,"date":"2010-05-14T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=17872"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:00:23","slug":"us-broadband-demand-up-ifirst-quarter-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/us-broadband-demand-up-ifirst-quarter-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.A Broadband Demand up in the first Quarter 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/05\/12\/us-broadband-demand-bounces-back\/\">recent article and report<\/a> published by Durham NH based Leichtman Research has indicated that broadband services were up for the first time in a long time in the first quarter of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>This report is great news for those end users and carriers interested in selling Hosted VoIP services; Net new broadband circuits probably means that Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) is on the way out for these same businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/manufacturer\/aastra\">Aastra<\/a> Carrier sales team has several Hosted VoIP carriers who use the embedded base of POTS service as a lead source, of sorts. That is to say if a customer has a lot of older cooper POTS lines or circuits, billing anywhere from $35 to $65 \/ month \/ circuit (depending on where you live), the Hosted VoIP carrier will offer SIP Trunking or Hosted VoIP service to replace these connections.<\/p>\n<p>The net result is the customer can disconnect these lines and receive concrete savings as a result of going to the new, broadband based SIP trunk or Hosted VoIP service. Broadband, for both internet and now voice, is becoming the mean vehicle to deliver these services.<\/p>\n<p>I envision the day when the multipurpose, broadband circuit will be all the only wired carrier service needed to run a business. If this happens get ready for the regulated phone companies to go crying to their local department of utilities for a rate increase for those POTS lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article and report published by Durham NH based Leichtman Research has indicated that broadband services were up for the first time in a long time in the first quarter of 2010. This report is great news for those end users and carriers interested in selling Hosted VoIP services; Net new broadband circuits probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193493,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions\/193493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}