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(old news - 02:13PM Tuesday May 08 2007)
tags: competition · business · cable · stats · VoIP
A new report from Jupiter Research notes that cable providers now account for 71% of the VoIP market. The firm predicts that VoIP growth will reach 25 million US households by 2012. At the NCTA show in Las Vegas this week, cable execs are bragging that when it comes to the triple play, they're hurting the telcos far worse than the telcos are hurting them. Cox executives brag that for every video customer they lose to the telcos, they gain some 50 VoIP customers. Granted this is one battle that has only just begun, with AT&T just passing the 20,000 subscriber IPTV mark and FiOSTV yet to break the million subscriber mark.

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Transmaster
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I wonder when

one of these cable outfits is going to purchase the carcass of Vonage for their customer base. I know if I was the people running Vonage and I got an offer to get me out from under the litigation I would take it.

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permalink · 2007-05-08 13:02:38 · Reply to this

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Re: I wonder when

said by Transmaster See Profile :

one of these cable outfits is going to purchase the carcass of Vonage for their customer base. I know if I was the people running Vonage and I got an offer to get me out from under the litigation I would take it.

Would be very hard to do, since the Cable Co's use QoS from the cable modem they install over THEIR network.

So if Time Warner wanted to buy a customer from Vonage who used Comcast, they couldn't control the priority of traffic across the Comcast network.
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permalink · 2007-05-08 13:06:22 · Print · Reply to this

ninjatutle
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And how many of those newly VOIP customers ditches the service after a few months seeings its not for them?
permalink · 2007-05-08 13:06:29 · Reply to this
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I don't think the turnover is quite high, I've had mine now for almost three years(Callvantage) and don't ever plan on going back to a landline. Sure there are hiccups at times but overall the cost savings is worth it.
permalink · 2007-05-08 13:22:52 · Reply to this
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Isn't Callvantage AT&T, and didn't AT&T just tell everyone you've got 30 days?
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said by ninjatutle See Profile :

And how many of those newly VOIP customers ditches the service after a few months seeings its not for them?
Not too many, given that cable's net VOIP numbers are continuing to explode.
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permalink · 2007-05-08 13:31:58 · Print · Reply to this
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permalink · 2007-05-08 16:55:58 · Reply to this
Gilitar

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Cable dominates (exception: Mediacom)

This story is probably true unless your talking about a Mediacom market. Here in Mobile, AL they aren't deploying to new developments.

SOMEONE please buy Mediacom! It seems they are too cash strapped to do any new deployments.

/rant
permalink · 2007-05-08 13:21:43 · Reply to this
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Re: Cable dominates (exception: Mediacom)

said by Gilitar See Profile :

This story is probably true unless your talking about a Mediacom market. Here in Mobile, AL they aren't deploying to new developments.

SOMEONE please buy Mediacom! It seems they are too cash strapped to do any new deployments.

/rant
In Mobile city limits its mainly, if not mostly, Comcast with Medicom getting the rural and outskirts of the city...I used to live off of Dawes Rd and had both in my neighborhood-
permalink · 2007-05-08 13:35:33 · Print · Reply to this

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said by Gilitar See Profile :

This story is probably true unless your talking about a Mediacom market. Here in Mobile, AL they aren't deploying to new developments.

SOMEONE please buy Mediacom! It seems they are too cash strapped to do any new deployments.

/rant
It could be worse... You could be stuck with Knology!
permalink · 2007-05-08 13:43:31 · Print · Reply to this

odreian615

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Maybe its just here but Comcast VOIP sucks (NW Chicago)

Everyone I know say it dropps calls and have alot of static I believe them cause every now and then I get the green interference blocks on my Comcast cable especially when it storms
permalink · 2007-05-08 14:15:13 · Reply to this

phxmark
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Oh great...

...announce to Verizon so they have another target.
permalink · 2007-05-08 14:19:14 · Reply to this

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And telcos STILL pile on the junk fees

They think that will help their situation?
permalink · 2007-05-08 20:21:00 · Reply to this

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The simple reason Cable beats Telco on VOIP

There's a very simple reason why Cable Internet users are willing to get VOIP while most Telco broadband customers don't.

And that is:

MOST Telco customers (DSL variants) are forced to pay for a POTS line in order to get DSL. It's hard for a consumer to justify the additional expense of a VOIP service when they "already" pay for a telephone line.

Should Telco's ever allow people to drop the POTS line (Don't count on it) and just get Broadband internet, then you'd see a demand for VOIP services among those customers grow substantially.
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