Germanys announcement that it was ending its deal with Verizon, for instance, was a big win for Deutsche Telekom, a Verizon competitor who will step in to take on the services.
The company has previously advertised itself as an alternative to American companies, which many see as tied to the NSA. After the Snowden revelations first emerged last year, the company took part in a broader campaign to convince Germans to move off American networks called Email Made in Germany, which promised high security and data protection standards.
Deutsche Telekom is far from alone.
F-Secure, for instance, a Finnish cloud storage company similar to Dropbox or Google, advertises the fact that its roots are in Finland, where privacy is protected by law.
All told, the NSAs actions could cause American Web companies to lose as much as $35 billion by 2016, according to analysis from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. That would represent a loss of 20 percent of the foreign market.
Forrester Research, a research firm, predicted that the losses could be as high as $180 billion over the next two years.
