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Thanks to Cable, VoIP in the U.S. Is Booming

Source: gigaom.com

Despite all the troubles with VoIP service providers such as SunRocket and Vonage, VoIP as a technology seems to be doing quite well in the U.S., according to data from Telegeography. As of the end of March, there were 16.3 million consumer VoIP lines, or about 13.8 percent of U.S. households, and 27 percent of households with broadband lines installed.

It’s hardly a surprise, as a lot new additions are coming from people buying triple-play services from cable companies. As of the end of the first quarter of 2008, here’s how the cable VoIP data broke down:

* Comcast: 5.1 million
* TimeWarner: 3.17 million
* Cox: 2.46 million
* Cablevision: 1.68 million
* Charter: 1.08 million

Cynthia Brumfield puts the total VoIP lines shared by the top nine cable providers at just over 14 million. The cable guys added about 1.3 million new subscribers. Most of them are refugees of phone companies who are losing customers by the day, as we have previously noted on more than one occasion.

The guys at Telegeography say that since the start of 2007, the three regional Bell Rperating Companies (RBOCs) — AT&T, Verizon and Qwest — have lost 17.3 million residential telephone lines, while VoIP service providers have gained 14.4 million new customers. Nearly 80 percent have come from cable companies.

Published on May 19th, 2008 under , , , , , , , , ,

For Comcast, Broadband Still Growing. For Now.

Source: gigaom.com

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So all the noise, anger and finger-pointing at Comcast’s cheap traffic tricks didn’t impact its broadband business. The company just reported a decent enough first quarter, but what got my attention: It now has 14.1 million high-speed subscribers, compared to 13.6 million at the end of 2007. That translates to about 500,000 new subscribers. Given how broadband sales have slowed down for DSL providers (but not for FTTH services), this is pretty significant. Karl on DSL Reports is taking a glass-half-full approach to the earnings but writes that things are slowing down. Seems like extra speeds are helping push the revenues as well, according to the company:

The strong subscriber and revenue growth in the first quarter of 2008 benefited from the introduction of additional promotional offers and speed tiers, including Comcast’s BLAST and Performance Plus services (8Mbps or higher service) and Comcast’s Economy Internet service (768Kbps service).

Another astonishing number: Comcast added 639,000 Comcast Digital Voice (CDV) customers during the first quarter — penetration reached 12 percent or 5.1 million customers with revenues of about $587 million in the first quarter of 2008. Time Warner Cable also posted a similar kind of growth, adding 280,000 phone customers and 304,000 high-speed customers in the first quarter. In comparison, the phone companies keep losing landline customers. No wonder phone companies are worried.

Published on May 1st, 2008 under , , , , , , , ,

Time Warner Cable Testing To Charge Based On Internet Usage or Nearest Byte Billing

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Broadband News is reporting that Time warner Cable is testing overage charges for its RoadRunner cable broadband service. The system is aimed at gaining additional revenue from "5% of subscribers who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth." The trial will determine whether it’s practical to deploy such a system nationally.
While I think it is bull or better what come out of rear end of the bull, we all remember to begining of the internet services, in those dial up days and ISDN days. They (phone companies or ISPs) charged based on usage. It suddenly died soon as "All you can eat" model came to be.
Time warners 5% of users will be 95% once the multimedia service become more main stream. People will be renting movies and music on line. So higher usage will be for more that 5%.
On the other hand, Time warner may be trying to recoup what it might lose in PPV movies!
Broadband News also mentioned that; "It is rumored that Comcast has also conducted such tests, but never implemented the system because they were afraid of consumer backlash. We recently spoke to several ISPs and an industry analyst, all of whom shared those same concerns. ISPs are under pressure from investors to gain more revenue from higher-consumption users, but have had great success marketing the "all you can eat" business model to consumers."
So Roadrunners you might soon be coyotes or something on coyote’s plate.
You can read more at Broadband News.

Published on January 17th, 2008 under ,

Time Warner VoIP, “Digital OnePrice”

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Time Warner Cable has started to deploy a VoIP plan in certain markets called "Digital OnePrice", a flat-rate pricing plan for its customers. The service offers 3,000 minutes per month of international calling to 100 countries for $19.95 more a month if you bundle the plan with TV, broadband and VoIP service, TWC’s triple play.

Q:What countries are included in the International OnePrice calling plan?
A:More than 100 countries are included in the International OnePrice calling plan. For a complete list of countries click here.

Q:Can I make calls to cell phones via the International OnePrice calling plan?
A:Calls to cell phones in Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Paraguay, St. Kitts, Thailand and Trinidad and Tabago are included. Calls to cell phones in all other countries will be charged at a per-minute rate.

The plan was launched this week in San Antonio and New York, but should make its way to other markets shortly, according to a Time Warner Cable spokesman.

Published on August 28th, 2007 under , , , , ,

US has now nine million active residential VoIP customers

Source: voipcentral.org

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I have with me the latest In-Stat report, which presents vivid picture of current state of Residential VoIP in the USA. The most interesting aspects of the recent study is the tentatively inclusion of both client-based VoIP services like Skype and Facilities-based VoIP services such as Vonage to find out exact number of household VoIP users.

A new kind of service Residential VoIP Tracker Service introduced by research firm In-Stat confirms there is an increase in the number of residential VoIP customers in the country in the last few months.

According Residential VoIP Tracker Service, now US has more than 9 million active residential VoIP customers. The active VoIP customers are the customers who dont access multiple VoIP services from different service providers.

In percentile terms, 7.9 percent of households now use a VoIP telephony service by the end of Q3 this year. It was 6.5 percent at the end of second quarter.

When it comes to client-based VoIP services, Skype enjoys the supremacy with 2.1 million active households. Microsoft comes next with 1.1 million households as of the end of Q3.

There is a close battle between Vonage and Time Warner Cable in field of facilities-based VoIP services. Vonage leads the USA residential VoIP market with 1.7 million subscribers while Time Warner has 1.6 million active household customers.

Image and Report : In-Stat

Published on December 21st, 2006 under , , , , , ,

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