Time Warner, Comcast Report Accelerating VoIP Growth

摘要

Cable companies are making significant inroads in the consumer VoIP market, as Time Warner, Inc., and Comcast Corp. this week announced accelerating subscriber growth in 2005. Time Warner is leading the way, having topped 1 million subscribers in December, but Comcast is aiming to catch up, as it is ramping up marketing and spending on VoIP service this year. Time Warner reported that its Time Warner Cable unit had signed up 880,000 digital phone subscribers in 2005, bringing its total number of phone customers to 1.1 million, or 7% of eligible homes passed.