Telecom Investor Magazine

New reports from Parks Associates say that the broadband consumer market will reach 24 million subscribers in four years, stating the obvious: that the Internet revolution is proceeding faster than most market watchers predicted.

Among the highlights of the Parks Associates research:

    * Household PC penetration will reach 71% by 2004 and household Internet penetration will reach 67% by that time. This latter figure represents a 72% increase from 1999’s penetration rate o ...read more

Home networks have arrived — sort of — after two decades of false starts and false hopes.

According to Frost & Sullivan and Parks Associates, there are well over 1 million home networks; Parks asserts the number may be as high as 3 million.

Home networking equipment used to be the province of small- and medium-sized concerns such as AMX, Crestron, Intellon, Leviton, Lutron, and Niles Audio. Today, the industry standards committees are crowded with the largest companies in e ...read more