According to Parks Associates, 26 percent of US broadband homes already own at least one smart home device, and 50% report issues when setting up a smart home device. While CSPs are usually not involved in these purchases, they receive the vast majority of service calls. In addition, consumer brands such as Google, Facebook and Netflix are leveraging their broadband networks for free while many CSPs struggle to compete for these new revenue streams.
From the industry press release "Service Providers Can Now Elevate Their Business Models by Seizing Control of the Burgeoning Smart Home and Business Opportunity."
Parks Associates data shows that 1 in 5 consumers in the US currently own smart home devices with global growth on the rise and residential connected devices will generate approximately 11 million sup...
The interactive panel session, moderated by Brett Sappington, Director of Research for Parks Associates, examines changes in CPE product design and deployment as the OTT, broadcast, and pay-TV worlds...
PointCentral, the recognized leader in enterprise-scale Smart Home Automation solutions for property managers, today announced that Sean Miller, PointCentral’s incoming president, has been invited to...
Today’s consumers have multiple social media accounts, and according to Parks Associates research1, use an average of three public cloud services per household like Dropbox, Google Drive™ or Microsoft...
