Telecom Marketing To Hispanics Part Of New Ethnic Focus.

Telecom providers are marketing more aggressively to ethnic groups, reports In-Stat. Examples of this include Qwest’s low-cost long distance calling plans for Mexico, and Sprint’s launch of Movida Communications, both of which target the more than 42 million Hispanics in the US. Many of the current ethnic marketing initiatives tend to focus on the Hispanic market, as this is the largest ethnic population, with over 43 million individuals in 2005.

“In-Stat has also found that some ethnic groups react better to specific types of advertising and marketing and are influenced by different sources,” says Amy Cravens, In-Stat analyst. “In better understanding these differences, providers may be able to more fully realize the potential subscribership of what may be under-subscribing ethnic groups.”

A recent report by In-Stat found the following:

Although decreases in revenues from wireline services are expected from subscribers of all ethnicities, the lowest declines are expected from Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander subscribers due to their population growth.

By 2009, more than 40.4 million whites are expected to subscribe to broadband. The number of Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander subscribers is expected to grow at faster rates, however.

African Americans are expected this year to account for the second greatest percentage of dial-up subscribers, nearly 6.0 million. This number is expected to fall to 4.3 million by 2009.

The report, “Culture Shock: Trends in Ethnic Marketing”,covers the results of the “Consumer Telecom Survey, 2005” research study. This report presents data from structured telephone interviews with consumers across the US regarding their expected telecommunication service usage for 2005, and in future years.

For more information at http://www.in-stat.com