First, broadband. The vast majority (87%) of enterprises are planning to increase their connectivity budget over the next two to three years. That’s according to a recent Quortus study. Why? A desire to increase operational efficiencies and support business requirements.
But interestingly, enterprises are unhappy with the public networks too. 63% of enterprises reported reduced productivity and efficiency. They also cited poor customer experiences and security concerns.
Then, cloud. European resellers are preparing for a big push on the cloud in the coming year, with 49 percent preparing now. 73 per cent of resellers are seeing customers accelerate the rate of digital transformation due to the pandemic, and more than half (51 per cent) say the cloud is driving this surge.
Why do we care?
Even big companies think the broadband providers suck.
The article I’m linking to says the bandwidth problem is an opportunity to sell private networks. Um.. ok. Sure. For me, I guess I’m more interested in knowing why the market place is allowing such lower performing networks to exist.
Embrace of the cloud is the trend, and one would think that the providers would be supporting that. They do in marketing, but all the data says they actually suck at implementation, and competition is low. It’s too capital intense a market to expect an easy disruption.
The private network answer also isn’t a good SMB one – and note, the gap between the haves and the have nots just gets wider if allowed to continue. You’re in SMB IT… you should care about the FCC’s efforts here.