Canadian MSOs to have 16% of telco subs - but telcos to have just 4% of TV subs, predicts report

TORONTO – Canadian cable companies can look forward to adding millions of voice customers says a report out today from Convergence Consulting Group. According to the company’s oft-cited and comprehensive Battle for the North American Couch Potato: Bundling, Internet, TV, Telephone report, by year-end 2007 Canadian cable companies will have 16% of residential telephone subscribers (or 2.1 million - of which 70% will be VOIP). By the end of 2009, MSOs will have 27% (3.8 million). This is up from the end of this year, where the report says cable will have 6.5% or the telco market, or 850,000 customers,...