2006 US Metro Business and Wholesale Report Card


January 30, 2007
279 Pages - SKU: ACM1549291
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Countries covered: United States

ATLANTIC-ACM's 2006 Metro Carrier Report Card: Business and Wholesale provides a comprehensive review of metro carriers and their performance with customers, profiles, case studies, customer preference data, market stats and projections and many other pieces of "must have" data for players in the metro space. The US Metro Report Card features wholesale and enterprise customer ratings of carrier performance in metro-specific product categories and service-partnership areas. Ratings cover 6 Service - Partner categories and 9 Metro -Specific voice & data product categories, derived from vertical - specific customers’ quantitative assessment of their past 24 months of service.


I. Executive Summary
II. Overview of the US Local Exchange Carrier Industry
a. Regulation
b. Market Sizing and Share
III. Defining Metro Market Components: Carriers, Geography, Offerings& Market Catalysts
a. What makes a carrier a “Metro Carrier”
b. Discussion of Metro Product Offerings
c. Discussion of Catalysts in Metro Markets
IV. The Players: Metro Carrier Case Studies
a. Alltel
b. American Fiber
c. Systems AT&T
d. BellSouth
e. Cbeyond
f. CenturyTel (LightCore)
g. Cogent
h. Comcast
i. Cox
j. Fibertech Networks
k. FPL FiberNet
l. Level 3
m. Looking Glass
n. Mpower
o. McLeod
V. Respondent Portrait
a. Statistical Representation of Respondents
b. Discussion of respondent characteristics
VI. Customer Metro Purchase Criteria:
a. General customer preference trends
b. Vertical - Size - Geography - Spend - Growth
VII. Categorical Analysis of Service-Partner - Category Ratings: Brand, Sales Reps, Provisioning, Network Performance, Customer Service, Billing
a. ILEC/RBOC
b. MSO
c. CLEC
d. Regional/National Facilities-Based
e. Metro Specific Facilities-Based
VIII. Product Ratings
a. PRI
b. Local Access Products
c. VoIP Products
d. Local Voice Products
e. Ethernet
f. SONET Ring Services
g. Direct Internet Access
h. Dark Fiber
IX. Mean Service-Partner and Product Ratings by Respondent Vertical
X. Satisfaction of Wholesale Metro Customer vs.National Wholesale Customers
XI. Conclusions
XII. Glossary of Terms


TABLES AND FIGURES
(Limited Table of Figures)
1: Total U.S. Local Fixed-Line Service Revenues (1992-2004)
2: Total U.S. Local Service Revenues (1997-2004)
3: Percent of Telecommunications Channels over Copper vs. Fiber
4: Ratio of Switches in Metropolitan Service Areas vs. Non-MSAs
5: ISDN Primary Rate Interface Connections over Time
6: Metro Ethernet Equipment Revenue Growth 2003-2007
7: Global Population Urban vs. Rural: 1990-2004
8: Number of Respondents vs. Individual Responses
9: Respondent Size Breakout
10: Importance Ratings of Carrier Characteristics as Drivers of Customer Choice
11: Weighted and Unweighted Service Partner Ratings for ILEC / RBOC Carriers: Brand Reputation, Sales Reps, Network, Performance,Customer Service, Billing
12: Weighted and Un-Weighted Service Partner Ratings for MSO Carriers: Brand Reputation, Sales Reps, Network Performance, Customer Service, Billing
13: Weighted and Un-Weighted Service Partner Ratings for CLEC Carriers: Brand Reputation, Sales Reps, Network Performance, Customer Service, Billing
14: Weighted and Un-Weighted Service Partner Ratings for Regional / National Facilities-Based Carriers: Brand Reputation, Sales Reps, Network Performance, Customer Service, Billing
15: Weighted and Un-Weighted Service Partner Ratings for Metro-Specific Facilities- Based Carriers:Brand Reputation, Sales Reps, Network Performance, Customer Service, Billing
16: Weighted Products Ratings by Carrier: PRI, Local Access Products, VoIP Products, Local Voice Products, Ethernet,SONET Ring Services, Direct Internet Access, Dark Fiber
17: Representation of Respondent by Industry and Vertical: Service Enterprise, LEC,Wireless, Portal, Product Enterprise, ISP, Cable, Other
18: Mean Service-Partner & Product Ratings by Respondents Vertical: Wholesale Verticals vs. Retail Business Verticals
19: Satisfaction of Wholesale Metro Customer vs. National Wholesale Customer
20: Average Industry Ratings for Drivers of Metro Purchase Decision
21: Unweighted National vs. Metro Wholesale Average Ratings
22: Weighted Metro Product Rating: Business vs. Wholesale

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