Cablecos to chase SMB market

If you're betting that cablecos are going to be satisfied with signing up home telephony users, you might want to hedge those bets. Insight Research released a report recently predicting that the Top 20 cablecos (are there still that many cable companies left?) are going to turn their attention to SMBs next. Researchers project that telcos will lose more than 1.5 million small business phone lines this year, and nearly 10 million over the next five years. That would probably have happened, cablecos or not. But given that cablecos pass 6.5 million of the 7 million SMBs, count on their being fierce competitors.

For more about the Insight Research report:
- read this Network World article

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