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Parks Associates research finds that since 2016, the average number of connected devices has almost doubled - rising from 9 per household in 2016 to 16 per household in 2022. These devices comprise a mix of smart health, smart home, and computing and entertainment products. Products are located in many areas of the home, with many smart home products such as IP cameras deployed to the edge of the network and smart TVs occupying multiple rooms of the household. The return of the home...

Register now for the upcoming complimentary webinar “Managed Services with Exceptional Experiences: How Broadband Providers Win,” in collaboration with Calix on Tuesday, January 24 at 1:00 PM CT. This webinar discusses key trends impacting the 2023 roadmaps for broadband service providers (BSPs), new managed services BSPs can deploy to enhance and differentiate the subscriber experience, and recommended resources to avoid missteps. Speakers will discuss...

The smart home market as a whole experienced relatively strong growth in 2021 and smart appliances were no exception. The average # of smart appliances owned by US broadband households has roughly doubled from 2020 to 2021. Now, over one-fifth of consumers now own a smart appliance, with more than a quarter intending to purchase a smart appliance in the next 6 months   All smart appliances across the board saw record adoption and purchase rate, with the...

Did you know that by the end of 2025, approximately 93% of US households will have a broadband subscription, either fixed or mobile? Join leading industry executives and analysts at Parks Associates’ interactive CONNECTIONS virtual session “ Broadband Future Proofing: Driving New Experiences and Value ”on October 20 at 11:00 AM CT for insights addressing how technology providers and operators are expanding functionality to enable new services at home. Panels and...

Telework, or remote work from an off-premise location, is not new -- workers have leveraged technology to work remotely since the advent of the telegram. Modern telework before the pandemic despite being technically feasible for over 20 years remained uncommon: official estimates peg incidence at ~5% in 2018. The ability to work remotely was a rare perk granted semi-officially to senior executives, specific job functions such as IT staff or call center employees, those undergoing...

2021 and 2022 have been healthy years for the home security industry, and new competition is changing the landscape. Self-installed systems now represent about half of all security systems owned or 16% of all US broadband households. Taken together, these metrics underline the growth of the self-install, professionally monitored market for major players. Understanding the complexity of the market is important as the lines continue to blur with offerings from traditional players...

There is no doubt the cloud gaming market is at an inflection point, with major heavyweights getting increasingly involved over the past 18 months. As of 2021, 75% of heads of US broadband households report playing video games for at least one hour per week and 30% of US broadband households reported subscribing to or trialing at least one free or paid gaming service. Cloud gaming services provide a new opportunity to serve the gaming market and capture the consumer segment without...

vMVPDs represent a small but growing percentage of the total pay TV market, and over time will become a significant method by which “pay TV” is sold and consumed. Online pay TV overall, including vMVPDs, is poised to overtake traditional pay TV over the long term.   COVID-19 has merely accelerated the pace of trends that were already taking place across the TV landscape prior to the pandemic, and re-acquainted many with TV services, albeit via a different medium –...