Big four VoIP players win 12 million users

The big four U.S. VoIP providers now have 12 million phone customers after Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Vonage last week all released new subscriber numbers. Time Warner announced its three millionth digital voice phone customer. This was followed by a statement from privately held Cox Communications that it now has 2.4 million digital voice customers. Last month Comcast revealed it had four million voice subscribers. The other major VoIP player, Vonage, also announced last week it had 2.6 million customers.

Three cable companies now account for nearly 10 million phone subscribers. Telcos Verizon, AT&T, Embarq and Qwest recorded total access line losses of 10 million in 2007. To stem the loss, Verizon and AT&T have aggressively moved into the video market, once the domain of the cable companies.

Time Warner Cable is now the seventh-biggest provider of telephony in the U.S. and Comcast boasts it is the fourth-largest provider of residential telephony. In 2007, Cox added 357,000 residential voice customers and is now only slightly behind Vonage in number of VoIP subscribers. Cox also increased its business phones by nearly 30 percent and has more than 500,000 non-video customers.

For more:
- Time Warner Cable signs up three millionth phone customer Release
- Cox Communications releases new numbers Release

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