Boston, MA – August 24th, 2020 TMT focused research consultancy and market diligence firm ATLANTIC-ACM announced its 2020 U.S. Business Connectivity Service Provider Excellence Awards based on the results of their industry leading customer experience benchmarking study of business end users. The awards are determined by detailed user reviews from over 1,200 unique customers who provided 3,400+ carrier specific evaluations of service level and product quality for their current providers.
ATLANTIC-ACM introduced the Business Connectivity Report Card survey in 2006 to identify the strengths and weaknesses of enterprise service providers, along with customer buying trends and priorities.
The 2020 analysis of the U.S. enterprise voice and data market marks the 15th consecutive year of this research and offers competitive customer experience benchmarking data to carriers along with insights on shifting purchase dynamics and buying priorities.
Network Performance, Security, and Price continue to be the most important buying priorities for enterprise customers. Respondents indicated continued plans to decrease spend on and/or migrate away from Legacy Voice and Private Line in favor of more cost effective and higher capacity Ethernet, Wave, Internet Access, and SD-WAN services. Reported buyer demand for additional services indicated that Security, Network Monitoring, Managed Wi-Fi, Wireless Data Connections, SD-WAN, and Unified Communications were all focus areas for customers in the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise communications.
This year, ATLANTIC-ACM also asked targeted questions to assess the impact of COVID-19 on future purchases and changing work environments. Key insights include the proliferation of remote workers, with >80% of employees working remotely during the pandemic, consequently driving demand for hosted UCaaS solutions. On other services, buyers are planning to hold spend given the uncertainty around business reopening, with legacy service disconnects expected accelerate post pandemic.
The winners for Large Service Providers (based on total estimated wireline revenue) were:
- CenturyLink: Data Value (tie)
- Comcast: Data Value (tie)
- Cox Business: Sales Rep, Service Delivery, Billing, Voice Value
- Verizon: Brand, Network Performance, Customer Service
The winners for Midsized Service Providers were:
- Altice USA: Voice Value
- Cogent: Brand, Sales Reps (tie), Service Delivery, Network Performance, Billing, Customer Service, Data Value
- Crown Castle: Sales Reps (tie)
About ATLANTIC-ACM
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