Comcast sees soft market, but good VoIP growth

Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) has announced some pretty mixed news lately--as reported in our sister publication FierceCable, it made $884 million in net profit for Q2 which is actually down over 8 percent from last year. The company says it sees the consumer market as a little soft.

But the interesting thing to us here at FierceVoIP is their VoIP numbers. Those actually are a nice little shining spot on the report.

Comcast has added 230,000 VoIP customers for the quater, which is actually down from adding 233,000 last year. Sure, it's not exponential growth, but its still growth. The company saw Q2 end with 47.7 million total voice, Internet and television customers and 8.1 million total voice customers. Those numbers make Comcast the U.S.'s third largest residential phone company.

For more:
- see this article
- see this from FierceCable

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