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Infonetics Report Reveals Top
Telecom Service Provider Spenders
I
n April, market research firm Infonetics Research re-
leased preliminary data on the world’s top 60 telecom
service providers by revenue from its quarterly Service
Provider Capex, Opex, Revenue, and Subscribers Database. 


“NTT, which passed AT&T as the top revenue-generating
service provider in 2011, remains the number-one service
provider in the world in terms of revenue and capital expen-
ditures, and in 2012 it became the leader in terms of operat-
ing expenses as well,” said Maria Zeppetella, market analyst
manager at Infonetics Research and lead analyst on the
report. “Telefónica Group leads among European operators in
terms of capex, revenue, and opex.”


• The world’s top three service providers by 2012 revenue
are NTT, AT&T, and Verizon.
• Comcast is the only pure cable operator among the top ten
revenue generators.
• When measuring capex, the top three service providers are
NTT, China Mobile, and AT&T.
• Geographically, China dominates spending, with three
providers in the top six.
• The number-one independent wireless provider by revenue
is China Mobile, with sales of almost $89 billion in 2012.
• LTE subscribers are the fastest-growing segment of sub-
scribers compared to all other technologies.
Most U.S. Broadband Households
Now Own Home Network
A
ccording to new data from TDG, home network diffu-
sion among U.S. broadband households has reached
84 percent, up from 81 percent in 2011. In-Home CE
and Home Network Ecosystem, TDG’s latest report on the key
trends impacting digital media, also notes that router place-
ment and network-related behavior is increasingly defined by
streaming media as opposed to data-related activities.
“Over the years, we have predicted and witnessed the
movement of home network routers toward primary living
spaces concomitant with the uptake of net-enabled video
platforms and over-the-top video services,” said Michael
Greeson, TDG co-founder and author of the new research
report. “Today, more than a third of routers are found in the
primary living spaces, nearly twice the number of routers
located in spaces dedicated to home office functionality.”
Greeson also noted the continued shift in how these
networks are used. “Just a few years ago, network use was
dominated by data-centric activities (email, messaging,
productivity applications, etc.), with few consumers actually
using their home networks to access and share digital media.
Today, however, 62 percent of networked households are us-
ing their network to stream digital media.”
And both of these attributes—network placement and
primary use—are highly correlated with age. That is, the
younger the head-of-household, the more likely that the
router is located in the primary living space, and the network
is used to stream digital media.
First, TDG found a strong correlation between router place-
ment and age, especially among networked Millennials (adult
heads-of-household 18 to 34 years of age): they are signifi-
cantly more likely than other age groups to place their router
in the living/family room. Conversely, Millennials are least
likely to have their gateways in an area of the home they call
a “home office.” Why would this be?
“Millennials exhibit dramatically different network use
profiles than their older counterparts,” Greeson said, “espe-
cially when it comes to media streaming. Younger consumers
want their router located closest to the devices it serves most,
which are increasingly found in the home’s primary enter-
tainment center—that is, in the living room.”
Verizon Launches
Green Energy Project
V
erizon announced on April 30 that it will invest
$100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project
that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven
states across the country. When completed next year, the
project will enable Verizon to annually generate more than
70 million kilowatt hours of its own green energy—enough
to power more than 6,000 single-family homes a year—while
eliminating more than 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
The fuel cell and solar products will be installed at a
variety of Verizon buildings, including corporate offices, call
centers, data centers, and central offices. This is the compa-
ny’s latest move toward reaching its goal of cutting its carbon
intensity—carbon emissions produced per terabyte of data
flowing through its networks—in half by 2020.
Verizon will work with ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of
scalable, distributed power systems, to install PureCell Model
400 fuel cell systems at Verizon sites in California, New Jer-
sey, and New York. The systems will generate more than 60
million kilowatt hours of electricity.
Verizon has also signed a multiyear agreement with
SunPower Corp. and is negotiating the deployment of high-
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