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Matt Davis
Program Director, Consumer Multiplay Services

Team: Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
Small Business/Home Office
Telecommunications
As Program Director of IDC’s Consumer Multiplay & Broadband Services and SMB Telecom, Broadband and Video programs, Mr. Davis drives analysis and thought leadership in the fast evolving market of converging telephony, broadband, video and wireless services. Mr. Davis focuses on U.S. service provider competition and technology convergence to identify what the next generation of emerging services will look like and how service providers take these services to market in the consumer and small medium business arena.

Mr. Davis was formerly the Director of the Broadband Access Technologies practice at The Yankee Group in Boston. In that role, he managed research and programs that helped service providers to better position themselves in the global communications marketplace with a focus on the deployment of next-generation broadband, voice and video services.

Mr. Davis has produced dozens of forecasts and reports analyzing the global telecom marketplace, has been quoted in numerous nationally circulated publications, and has been a featured speaker at a large number of public and private broadband industry events


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IT Help Desk Services for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Rob Brothers, Matt Davis
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUS23613212      IDC Link
Verizon has created an alliance with Best Buy’s Geek Squad to provide a new set of services to meet the increasingly complex information technology requirements of small and midsize businesses on a national level. Verizon designed a solutio ...
AT&T Gaining Traction with Cloud-Based VoIP Communications for Small Businesses
Matt Davis, Carrie MacGillivray
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23569512      IDC Link
Over a year after its February 2011 debut, AT&T's Office@Hand service is gaining momentum in the U.S. small business marketplace. Built on RingCentral's white labeled hosted VoIP platform, Office@Hand is a hosted VoIP service that provides ...

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U.S. SMB Landline Displacement 2013–2017 Forecast
Ben Hoffman, Matt Davis, Carrie MacGillivray
May 2013 - Doc # 241249      Market Analysis
This IDC study details the growing shift toward wireless displacement in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) over the 2013–2017 forecast period. The number of wireless-only SMBs in the United States will grow at a compound annual gr ...
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AT&T Enters the Home Security Market
Matt Davis
May 2013 - Doc # 241175      Insight
This IDC Insight examines AT&T's entry into the U.S. home security and automation market. AT&T's new service, branded Digital Life, is described and analyzed in the context of IDC's 2013 Consumer Multiplay and Broadband ...
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