Report: Enterprise spending on telecom services to rise 6% in 2011

More research this week shows strong gains in IT spending. This time, education and healthcare and social services are poised to lead strong growth in enterprise business spending on VoIP, cloud computing, wireline voice and data services and wireless, according to a new study from researchers at In-Stat.

The In-Stat research points to a 6 percent across the board revenue increase in enterprise spending on IT and telecom services.

"There will be positive growth across all 20 verticals with education and healthcare and social services leading the surge with growth of 10 percent and 9 percent respectively," said analyst Greg Potter. "These increases in spending are across all product groups except wireline voice, which will decline by about half a percent."

Enterprise spending in the healthcare sector on wireline data will approach $2 billion in 2014, said In-Stat, although spending on wireline voice will remain flat, with traditional TDM services continuing their decline, only reaching $3.4 billion in 2011.

Enterprises also look poised to increase spending on public cloud computing by 139 percent, as the segment continues to build momentum and gather supporters.

In June, Point Topic released a study forecasting the global fixed-line VoIP market  to reach $40 billion a year in revenues by 2015, with more room for growth as it continues to supplant traditional voice models. VoIP usage increased 12.6 percent in 2010. Point Topic analyst John Bosnell said in Europe, especially, there has been a rapid shift away from PSTN, with 50 percent of telephony traffic that originated on fixed networks in 2010 actually starting on a VoIP phone.

"We expect there to be over three quarters of a billion fixed line broadband subscribers by the end of 2015; in theory, all of them are targets for VoIP," Bosnell added.

In-Stat's report, Enterprise Markets for Telecom Services: Wireline Voice, Wireline Data, Wireless, Cloud Computing, and VoIP in 20 Verticals, provides forecasts of U.S. business telecom spending for the 2010-2015 period, with detailed segmentation by product category, size of business, corporate liable spending, individual liable spending and vertical market.

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