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Wholesale Services To Lead Telecom Market

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Through 2009, growth in spending on telecom services will be highest among wholesalers as a vertical industry, with retail, health care and financial services following behind.

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Top Telecom Services Buyers, 2009

That's the projection from IDC, which says the wholesale industry will spend $12.4 billion on telecom in 2009, and will need to use these services to improve sales and marketing in their effort to avoid being disintermediated within the supply chain.

The total market for telecorn services will be more than $165.2 billion in 2009, up from $154.4 billion last year, for a compound annual growth rate over the period of 1.4 percent, according to IDC.

The information is contained in the study, "U.S. Telecommunications Services 2005-2009 Forecast by Vertical Market."

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