Re: Tier one market share

[jhinkle <jhinkle@...>]

thanks Joel - does anybody have any information to refute UUNET
apparenetly being the king of the hill by a long shot??

joel sam wrote:

> In response to your inquiry
>
> Joel Sam
> WorldCom (UUnet/Digex/Skytel)
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>
> Today's focus: The ISP top dogs
>
> By Denise Pappalardo
>
> If you've either slowed down efforts to upgrade your IP service or
> put projects off all together you're not alone.
>
> According to a recent report by Probe Research, business users will
> spend $6.1 billion this year on Internet access services, but growth
> in the ISP services industry will slow down. Probe believes this is
> due to the slowing economy.
>
> Last year users spent $5.3 billion on IP services, which was 30% more
> than the previous year, but growth in 2001 is expected to increase by
> only 15% over 2000.
>
> But the research firm predicts the market will bounce back and that
> by 2006 users will be spending about $13 billion on IP services.
> Driving the on-going growth will be midsize and large businesses
> adopting storage-area networks, content distribution services and
> real-time video conferencing technologies, as well as the continued
> proliferation of e-mail and FTP traffic, says Hillary Mine, executive
> vice president at Probe.
>
> The report also named WorldCom as leading in ISP market share,
> primarily due to its UUNET ISP division. UUNET has been the leading
> ISP in terms of revenue derived from business users for several years
> running.
>
> Probe breaks down ISP market share based on year-end 2000 revenue.
> Here are the top 10 ISPs and their market shares:
>
> 1. WorldCom 27.9%
> 2. AT&T 10%
> 3. Sprint 6.5%
> 4. Genuity 6.3%
> 5. PSINet 4.1%
> 6. Cable & Wireless 3.5%
> 7. XO Communications 2.8%
> 8. Verio 2.6%
> 9. Qwest 1.5%
> 10. Global Crossing 1.3%
>
> With the eminent fall of PSINet still looming it's expected that some
> of its market share will be distributed among Genuity, Cable &
> Wireless and XO Communications. All three have a history with small,
> midsize and large customers. Users that fall in the small and midsize
> range historically choose companies that are more sympathetic to
> their needs. The general idea is if AT&T got calls from Ford and
> Joe's department store guess who they'll call back first.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhinkle [mailto:jhinkle@...]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:59 AM
> To: isp-bandwidth@isp-bandwidth.com
> Subject: Tier one market share
>
> Does anybody have the latest stats on Tier one ISP market share?
>
> I believe that Sprint and UUNET are 1 and 2 - who is 3, 4 and 5?
>
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