Pay-TV cord cutting has impact on VoIP, too

Consumers looking to trim expenses by cutting the cord to pay-TV also may have impacted the VoIP market; cable service providers report the segment is still growing, but at a slower pace than in years past.

Telcos on the other hand, are counting on the addition of VoIP customers to offset losses they continue to suffer as customers drop traditional landline service.

AT&T (NYSE: T) said its U-verse voice business added 119,000 customers sequentially in the third quarter; Verizon (NYSE: VZ), added 265,000.

In the quarter, Comcast (Nasdaq: CMSCA), the largest U.S. cable company, has seen its VoIP service grow to 9.2 million lines, adding 133,000 subscribers in the third quarter; the nation's second largest cable company,  Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) added just 5,000 VoIP lines in the quarter. Charter (Nasdaq: CHTR) and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) added just 10,900 and 17,000 respectively.

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