IP Democracy: Cable Telephony Tops the Four Million Mark

While the telcos threaten to enter the multichannel video business in competition with cable, cable operators entered the phone business years ago, but really picked up steam with the industry’s launch of VoIP services last year. And according to the most recent analysis by Emerging Media Dynamics (disclosure: my company), the U.S. cable industry topped the four million telephony customer mark at the end of Q3 05, with the seven largest cable companies serving a collective 4.5 million voice customers.

Not all of these voice customers are VoIP — Comcast and Cox, in particular, have substantial legacy circuit-switched telephony customers.

These 4.5 million telephony customers represent 9.1% of the total homes capable of buying cable-delivered voice services, a base of nearly 50 million homes or almost half of all cable homes passed in the U.S. (For more details, see this week’s issue of IP Media Monitor.)

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on November 14, 2005 9:21 AM to IP Democracy