Report: Telecom Services Up, But Future 'Tepid'

In-Stat research finds that just under half of the U.S. residential market has purchased multiple telecommunications services as a package from a single provider. That figure is up soundly from just one-third in 2004. However, the potential for growth of those bundled services is only "tepid" at best, states the report, with only 14 percent of non-subscribers expecting to adopt them in the next year.

According to the report, the appeal of individual service varies among different demographics, and providers will need to offer a variety of package choices to match the appropriate services with different customers' needs.

Some of the recent report's findings include: