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Please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Director of Sales, Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
or via email at:
claudino@lightreading.com |
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| Cable VOIP: Prospects for Sustainable Growth |
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Voice over IP (VOIP) is transforming the North American telecommunications market, driven by the increasingly rapid spread of broadband lines and aggressive marketing by VOIP service providers. With the number of North American broadband homes now approaching 50 million, VOIP is perhaps the fastest growing service on the continent.
Large cable operators and major independent IP phone providers such as Vonage have reaped most of the benefits of this growth by luring a growing number of voice customers away from incumbent telcos. Vonage, now the overall VOIP market leader in North America, claims more than 1 million IP voice customers, as do Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems.
Led by Cablevision, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable in the U.S. and Shaw Communications and Videotron in Canada, cable operators are increasingly taking control of the VOIP market. One decade after the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed phone and cable industries to compete against each other, the voice business has become a major battleground between the two rival industries.
This report explores the emergence of the cable VOIP business, the financial and competitive factors behind its rise, and the impact of this growth on the embattled phone industry. It evaluates the myriad challenges cable operators face in maintaining and sustaining VOIP growth and the industry's prospects for continued growth over the rest of the decade. Finally, the report analyzes the VOIP deployments, plans, and prospects of the 11 leading cable VOIP providers in North America.
Cable VOIP: Prospects for Sustainable Growth provides critical insight and analysis for a range of industry participants, including:
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Cable operators looking for independent analysis of VOIP growth prospects |
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Telecom operators now competing with cable operators for residential and business customers |
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VOIP technology suppliers assessing the potential size of the market opportunity for cable VOIP |
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Investors needing a better understanding of the scale of the opportunity that VOIP represents for the cable industry |
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| Sample research data from the report is shown in the excerpts below: |
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 Table of Contents (cii0806_toc.pdf) |
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| The first quarter of this year was the strongest yet for cable VOIP in North America: MSOs added more than 900,000 VOIP subscribers – more than 10,000 per day – to conclude March with more than 3.6 million subscribers total. With virtually every major North American MSO rolling out VOIP in earnest, this number surpassed 4 million by the end of May 2006. The following excerpt details first-quarter VOIP subscriber growth. |
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| [click on the image above for the full excerpt] |
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 Companies profiled in this report include: Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC); Charter Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR); Cogeco Cable Inc. (TSE: CCA); Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA); Cox Communications Inc.; Insight Communications Co. Inc.; Mediacom Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: MCCC); Rogers Communications Inc. (NYSE: RG); Shaw Communications Inc. (NYSE: SJR); Time Warner Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX); and Videotron Telecom Ltd. |
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