Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Comcast Adding 200,000 Voice Accounts a Month
Comcast is selling 50,000 wireline accounts a week, says Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. That’s 200,000 lines a month, or as much as 2.4 million lines a year. That’s just Comcast. Time Warner, Cox Communications, Cablevision Systems and other cable companies are adding more lines on top of that.
So wireline attrition does not necessarily benefit wireless companies as much as some might suspect or predict. Some analysts think 40 percent of all U.S. consumers will be “wireless only” in five years, for example.
In some Comcast markets, for example, including Philadelphia and the Washington markets, Comcast is selling 25 times more units of phone services than it is units of video, says Roberts.
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consumer VoIP,
mobile
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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