| NOTAS: | "The Western European market for Internet services, now the second largest in the world, has reached a critical point in its development. While levels of demand from the business and residential sectors continue to rise rapidly, over-supply has led to prices spiralling downwards. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), whose overall number is still increasing, need to continue to gain market share, but also to break out of the access-provider mould. ISPs are therefore developing in different directions and diversifying into new areas of the networked economy: application infrastructure provision, integrated communications services, ecommerce, new media and broadband. While ISPs must continue to pursue costly policies of expansion and service development in order to survive, the market corrections of the past year have also obliged them to establish business strategies that deliver speedier paths to profitability. The combination of these factors has resulted in a highly volatile environment in the Western European Internet market. Internet Service Providers in Western Europe (3rd Edition) captures all the current developments in the Internet market, profiling the key players and major markets in a comprehensive and invaluable single source. This report will enable you to identify where the competition is, and where the opportunities lie." |
