Service providers have home networking hole to fill

Service providers have a huge opportunity in front of them with home networks, according to a Forrester report out today — but they need to move quickly. The firm found that around 33 percent of U.S. households — or 39.3 million — have a home network, which they use to connect their devices and move digital content around.

That’s up only 5 percent from last year, but the slow growth is something on which service providers can capitalize, as Forrester expects that 62.9 million U.S. households will have home networks by 2013. Victory, however, is by no means assured...