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F2C: What the Data Says Alex Goldman
[April 21, 2008] One data expert and one person campaigning for better data presented together at the Freedom to Connect conference.

VoIP Ranking by Subscriber: Q4 2007 Alex Goldman
[April 11, 2008] Digital phone continues to advance, but subscriber data on some key players is still unavailable.

Top 25 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber: Q4 2007 Alex Goldman
[April 10, 2008] The top ten ISPs on our list now have more than three-quarters of the ISP market—and we count Time Warner twice in the top ten.

Subscriber Values: Q4 2007 Alex Goldman
[April 8, 2008] As consolidation continues, and disclosure of subscriber data remains poor, there are fewer and fewer ISPs on our charts.

MessageLabs: Storm Botnet Spews 20 Percent of All Spam Pedro Hernandez
[April 3, 2008] In March 2008, the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources, was 73.8 percent (1 in 1.36 emails), an increase of 1.1 percent on the previous month.

VoIP and the Other Cable Companies New Paradigm Resources Group
[April 1, 2008] Smaller cable companies, generally ignored by the trade press, are doing well with VoIP.

Opportunities and Challenges for Broadband Wireless and WiMAX in the USA, 1st Edition:
1: Key Findings Tim Sanders
[February 25, 2008] A new study from Maravedis peers through the WiMAX hype to make actionable predictions. Here are the details, the key findings.

Opportunities and Challenges for Broadband Wireless and WiMAX in the USA, 1st Edition:
2: Executive Summary Tim Sanders
[February 25, 2008] A new study from Maravedis peers through the WiMAX hype to make actionable predictions. Here's the big picture, the executive summary.

DSL Prime: Real Speed Dave Burstein
[January 8, 2008] Of particular interest: U.S. speeds are higher than usually estimated—some studies may fail to account for the high speed of cable broadband.

Point Topic: Broadband Value-Added Services Revenues Rise John Bosnell
[September 7, 2007] A new study from Point Topic says that Value Added Services revenue is rising faster than broadband subscriptions, and details which services are the most popular.

Executive Summary: Spam Index Peter Brockmann
[August 14, 2007] The latest report from Brockmann & Company describes the anti-spam technologies currently in use, shows how to compare them, and issues a recommendation.

Top Seven ISPs in Canada by Subscriber: Q4 2006 Alex Goldman
[April 23, 2007] Broadband continues to grow in Canada, and digital phone and VoIP are becoming popular too.

Executive Summary: Competitive Carrier Report 2007 New Paradigm Resources Group
[April 2, 2007] This is not your father's competitive telecom industry. It is leaner, meaner and battle tested. Five years after the great telecom nuclear winter, only the shrewd and adaptable competitive carriers remain. Hard won gains have begun to form the basis for new growth.

The Internet Uncertainty Principle Alex Goldman
[March 19, 2007] Put aside all of those internet research reports for a moment and think about the data we'd like to have but cannot obtain. The absence of data creates uninformed policy, but common sense dictates an obvious solution to broadband problems as the United States falls farther and farther behind.

IPTV Today—and Tomorrow Gerry Blackwell
[March 15, 2007] Although IPTV, the telephone company's (and ISP's?) great hope for the triple-play future, has so far failed to take the world by storm, its future seems assured. Indeed, it may in the long term be the only way video content is distributed.

Ellacoya's Data Alex Goldman
[January 26, 2007] The company's announcing a new traffic management box, and that's the big news, but the company also shared some insights from its cache of real usage data from millions of internet users.

Executive Summary: Fixed Wireless Carriers Report New Paradigm Resources Group
[January 9, 2007] A new study from the New Paradigm Resources Group explains how fixed wireless ISPs are ready to embrace new opportunities.

Executive Summary: Cable Companies New Paradigm Resources Group
[January 2, 2007] A new study from the New Paradigm Resources Group explains why cable companies have a bright future.

Executive Summary, VoIP Report 3rd Edition New Paradigm Resources Group
[December 27, 2006] A new study from the New Paradigm Resources Group explores the ever changing VoIP market.

Two Lists: VoIP Providers and Vendors New Paradigm Resources Group
[December 27, 2006] A new study from the New Paradigm Resources Group includes a list each of VoIP providers and VoIP equipment makers.

North American Metro Ethernet Services Markets Frost and Sullivan
[October 17, 2006] A new study shows that specific opportunities will be particularly lucrative for metro Ethernet providers, but also describes challenges, the most pressing of which is price pressure.

DSL Prime: The Results Are In Dave Burstein
[September 7, 2006] DSL Prime provides DSL subscriber numbers for the U.S. and Canada and also discovers perplexing data on DSLAM sales.

IronPort Reports Surge in Image Spam Alex Goldman
[July 10, 2006] IronPort released spam data that ISPs should pay attention to even though the data supports IronPort's products.

IDC: Data Centers Becoming Smaller, Faster Clint Boulton
[March 28, 2006] Research firm sees fewer, but more powerful pieces of computing gear running more powerful applications.

In-Stat Says IP PBXs are Now Preferred Jeff Goldman
[January 30, 2006] Enterprises are primarily going for the cost savings—and then being pleasantly surprised by the feature benefits.

The Internet and Its Discontents Alex Goldman
[May 9, 2005] A major internet researcher moves calmly from simple facts about the internet to a discussion about the key issue that will make or break its future.

New Anti-Spam Benchmark Alex Goldman
[May 2, 2005] We talked to the testing outfit that just released an anti-spam benchmark about how the tests work and how often the software will be tested in the future.

IPTV: The Big Picture Gerry Blackwell
[April 15, 2005] There's a compelling business case but also a number of risks, so, in this article, we get the world's leading DSL analysts to weigh the pros and cons of IPTV.

A Warning On Deliverability Alex Goldman
[April 14, 2005] A new study is a warning to ISPs that they may be blocking more than they know.

Evaluating UMA Alex Goldman
[January 24, 2005] We spoke to a prominent wireless industry analyst about the future of the dual mode technology known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA).t.

Company Releases Real World Data on File Sharing Alex Goldman
[July 16, 2004] If you want to find out what's happening, just connect to the net. That's what CacheLogic did: it measured P2P file sharing in six Internet hubs around the world.

Data Shows Independent ISPs Have Low Churn Alex Goldman
[May 7, 2004] Overall industry churn data is unavailable, but one company provided ISP-Planet with data covering a broad segment of the online population.

Telco Data Goes Open Source Alex Goldman
[April 29, 2004] It's not a movement; it's an individual. One person is building a website containing the basic information ISPs need in day-to-day operations that the Bells make tough to find.

Spam Blocking Experts: False Positives "Inevitable" Janis Mara
[March 4, 2004] It's impossible to block spam without inadvertently catching some legitimate e-mail, experts agreed, but the problem can be contained.

Broadband Poised for Takeoff Ron Miller
[Febraury 2, 2004] The U.S. broadband market is set to double by 2008, according to a new Jupiter Research report, as dial-up subscriber growth ends.

An Overview of Value-Added Services Alex Goldman
[December 22, 2003] ISP-Planet and the folks at ISP Market agree on one thing: value-added services are the key to survival in an ISP marketplace that lies under the creeping shadow of commoditization.

U.S. Named Biggest Spammer, Spammee Robyn Greenspan
[November 26, 2003] A new study suggests that anti-spam legislation might actually work, even if it only applied to spam originating from within the U.S.

DSL Leads Globally, U.S. Gap Narrowing Robyn Greenspan
[November 26, 2003] The global broadband connection of choice, DSL, is expected to catch up to the cable modem in the U.S.

As Spam Rises, Frustration Grows Robyn Greenspan
[October 27, 2003] As the tide of spam rises, legitimate uses of e-mail are threatened. A new study provides the statistics and the details.

Home is Where the Network is Robyn Greenspan
[September 9, 2003] Jupiter Research and In-Stat/MDR forecast that wired networks will be outpaced by Wi-Fi as early as next year if home electronics manufacturers adopt the technology.

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, July 2003 ISP-Planet Staff
[August 18, 2003] Good news, bad news, and worse news found in the month's figures on the two e-mail threats.

World Cable Modem Subs to Double By 2007 CyberAtlas staff
[July 28, 2003] Although Cable modem service will continue to grow, most of that growth will be in the U.S. where DSL is exceptionally poor.

Credit Card Concerns Curtail Purchases Robyn Greenspan
[May 12, 2003] Credit cards: almost all Internet users have them, but many are afraid to use them to make payments online. ISPs have similar fears—about their customers' credit cards.

The Right Price for ADSL ISP-Planet Staff
[April 24, 2003] Two new reports on ADSL pricing show that prices continue to vary widely around the world. Significant pricing differences highlight differences in marketing, geography—and government regulation.

Opportunity for ISPs to Sell Music Online Peter Sargent
[April 10, 2003] A new study by Jupiter Research says that ISP customers would be willing to pay premium prices for music downloads under certain conditions.

Spam and Viruses, March 2003 CyberAtlas Staff
[April 10, 2003] New studies show the most prevalent spam and viruses coursing through the Internet as of last month.

DSL Prime: Numbers Dave Burstein
[April 2, 2003] Year end numbers reveal that the Bells have 90 percent of the U.S. market. If competitors are locked out of the DSL market, how many will be able to build fiber?

Big Game, Big Revenue CyberAtlas Staff
[March 20, 2003] Two new reports agree that if you want to get more money from your subscribers, you should get with the joystick.

February's Top Affiliate Programs CyberAtlas Staff
[March 19, 2003] Each month, internet.com website Refer-it.com ranks the top 10 affiliate programs, exclusive of adult sites. Here are February's rankings.

DSL Bests Global Economic Woes ISP-Planet Staff
[March 17, 2003] In spite of the greatest economic pain the broadband world has ever seen, the world's DSL subscriber base grew by a healthy 90 percent in 2002.

U.S. Robotics Retains Modem Market Lead ISP-Planet Staff
[March 17, 2003] Statistics released by the NPD Group show that U.S. Robotics leads the dialup modem market in price and in unit sales.

ISP Report ISP-Planet Staff
[March 12, 2003] A new study from ISP-Market LLC analyzes ISP service offerings and spending projections, and uses the data to project future market trends.

Traffic Jam Could Lift Telecom Colin C. Haley
[March 3, 2003] Internet traffic will nearly double annually over the next five years, a spike that could push carriers to invest in network equipment again, IDC says.

ISP Rankings: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Eric Michel Yunis
[February 19, 2003] Top ISPs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Top Consumer ISPs in South Korea Alex Goldman
[December 19, 2002] With a densely populated urban area around its capital city, Seoul, South Korea has developed a flourishing broadband community and only one in twenty subscribers still uses dialup.