NEW YORK, CA, UNITED STATES, March 13, 2025 /ennovaterz/ — Lightyear, the leading provider of enterprise telecom management software, today announces the release of its highly anticipated 2025 State of Connectivity Report. This comprehensive report utilizes Lightyear’s proprietary dataset to provide timely insights on telecom industry and pricing trends.
“We at Lightyear are rethinking the enterprise telecom experience from first principles, and a significant component of doing so involves helping enterprises better inform telecom decisions with objective data,” said Dennis Thankachan, CEO & Co-Founder of Lightyear. “Telecom is an opaque industry, but our work at Lightyear—powering over 100,000 RFPs and more than 1,000,000 price quotes to date—gives us unique insight that can help buyers make more objectively sound decisions.”
The report covers timely industry and price trends, including the following highlights:
- The impact of global inflation on bandwidth pricing
- Wavelength vs. Ethernet Point-to-Points within the enterprise WAN
- NaaS: What is it? Is it worth my time?
- The State of MPLS in 2025
- DIA and Broadband Pricing Averages
- DIA Average Bandwidth Tiers Purchased
- Observed Type 2 Markup
To further explore the report’s findings, Lightyear has hosted an on-demand webinar and will also be featured on an upcoming episode of TeleGeography Explains the Internet podcast. Both resources offer deeper insights and actionable strategies for optimizing telecom infrastructure.
