About a quarter of Canadians will have cable phone by year's end: Report

TORONTO - By the end of this year, Canadian cable companies will have 24% of all residential telephone subscribers (up from 19% at the end of 2007), rising to 34% the end of 2010, says research firm Convergence Consulting Group in its ongoing The Battle for the North American Couch Potato series of reports. The latest was released this week. But, on the other side of the competitive coin, the report also predicts that telcos will have just 2% of TV subs, barely rising by the end of 2010 to 4%. Canadian telcos residential telephone line loss for 2007 was...