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Smart home products, systems to reach $11M support requests by 2019, says analyst firm

As more U.S. broadband households adopt connected devices, the need for support services will rise. According to a Parks Associates white paper, smart home products and systems will generate over seven million support requests in the U.S. in 2015 and approximately 11 million in 2019. Today, U.S. broadband households now own an average of seven-and-a-half connected computing and entertainment devices, and 18 percent own at least one smart home device.

From the article "Smart home products, systems to reach $11M support requests by 2019, says analyst firm" by Sean Buckley.

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