Telephone helps cable hold its own, says StatsCan

OTTAWA - Cable's foray into the telephone market was the main reason that cable distributors did not lose market share to competitors last year, says Statistics Canada, the first time this has happened since satellite television was introduced in 1997.Cable’s total number of subscribers to the principal services, (television, Internet access and telephone), reached 14.2 million on August 31, 2007 - 1.6 million more subscribers compared with the same period in 2006 - and more than half of these new customers were telephone service subscribers.In their official release bulletin called The Daily, StatsCan noted that while there were fewer new traditional...