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Through bundling services and expanding the overall broadband customer base, service providers can attain greater average revenue per user (ARPU) growth, according to research from In-Stat. The analyst firm said that by enhancing existing voice, data and video services through IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), an intelligent, converged network will open up market opportunities for many new services and applications.

A new report claims that the growth in demand for broadband managed services in the SME market is creating a new potential source of revenue for suppliers of broadband access services. Research and Markets says that "billions of euros in additional annual revenue are ready to be shared among suppliers that can provide SMEs with the right service packages to complement basic internet access".

A new broadband satellite service has been launched over Europe that hopes to expand DSL and VoIP coverage to remote rural areas. The SES Astra ASTRA2Connect service has been launched with Filiago as an anchor customer in Germany. SES Astra said a satellite-based DSL infrastructure is the only possibility for many rural regions in Germany to access high-speed DSL-internet.

New online voice over IP (VoIP) services are the greatest threat to fixed-line revenues with 68 percent of respondents identifying VoIP operators as the primary cause of declining revenues, a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit has revealed. The report found that over 80 per cent of industry executives believe that voice calls will no longer make up the primary revenue source for communications carriers within six years and over half believe this will happen within the next four years.

Broadband providers need to diversify and must look to broadband managed services in order to sustain small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) spend in Western Europe, according to a new Analysis report. The company surveyed 184 SMEs across France, Germany and the UK and found SME expenditure is set to peak in 2009 and reach 9. 7 billion by the end of 2011, up from 5.