 | | | | Comcast grabs lead position for U.S. consumer VoIP market share
|  By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
We interrupt our regularly scheduled series on IMS to report the latest market share numbers for consumer VoIP providers in the United States. Based on results reported for the third quarter of this year, it looks like Comcast is the now the clear VoIP market share leader. Comcast added 662,000 Comcast Digital Voice customers during the quarter and it now has 3,774,000 VoIP subscribers, representing a market penetration rate of 9.4% and reflecting net additions of over 2.4 million VoIP subscribers in 12 months. The CDV service is available to 40 million homes representing 83% of Comcast's footprint. Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Larry Hettick is a Principal Analyst at Current Analysis, the leading provider of competitive response solutions. A 25
year industry veteran, he has focused on Convergence and VoIP since 2000. | | | | | | |
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