IP Democracy: Comcast is the Nation's Number One VoIP Provider

Now that Vonage has weighed in with its Q2 07 subscriber statistics, there can be no doubt: Comcast, the nation’s number one cable operator, is now the nation’s number one VoIP provider. Although Comcast edged out pioneering Vonage at the end of Q1 07, it did so only by a hair — as of 3/31/07 Comcast’s Digital Voice service laid claim to 2.426 customers while Vonage counted 2.39 million customers.

As of June 30, 2007, however, Comcast clearly vaulted over Vonage, serving 3.1 million Digital Voice customers, in comparison to Vonage’s 2.45 million subscribers. Time Warner is hot on the heels of Vonage, though.

At the end of Q2 07, Time Warner had 2.34 million VoIP customers. Cablevision is a distant fourth in VoIP customer rankings, with 1.4 million VoIP subscribers, although Cablevision’s footprint is only one-fifth that of Time Warner’s.

Presumably privately held cable company Cox tops Cablevision, but Cox only releases total telephony customer counts — 2.2 million at the end of Q2 07 — and a good chunk of those customers are served by traditional circuit-switched technology.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on August 9, 2007 9:44 PM to IP Democracy