Lightyear’s new report highlights telecom industry and pricing trends observed in its proprietary dataset, illustrating how these factors may impact enterprise IT infrastructure strategies.

Lightyear, the leading provider of enterprise telecom management software, release 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

The full 2025 State of Connectivity Report is now available for download exclusively on ONUG’s resource library and Lightyear’s website.

Lightyear is excited to join the ONUG community this spring and fall as a New Idea Sponsor!