Cable / Telecom News

Cable voice will grow much faster than IPTV: report


MONTREAL - If cable companies continue on their current path of rapid voice coverage, they should be able to capture in excess of 40% of all voice access lines by year-end 2010, at more than 5 million lines, says a report being released today by Lemay-Yates & Associates. In contrast, the ILECs stand to shed in the range of 10% of their access lines per year over the period. The report is entitled “LYA Canadian Consumer Telecom & Cable TV Market Forecasts 2006” and takes a deep look at all the market segments including fixed voice communications, subscription TV, Internet...