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01-08-2008, 09:45 AM
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Cable giant Comcast has become the nation's fourth largest phone company (http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080108005350&newsLang=en). The cable company has signed up three million VoIP customers in just the last two years, leapfrogging Sprint spinoff Embarq to take the fourth spot. The company has had to hire 12,000 people in the past year and a half to help manage VoIP demand, and it will spend $450 million adding telephone customers in 2008. According to Comcast, the following features are coming in '08:•Universal Caller ID to the TV and PC customers can view caller information while watching TV or using their computer.
•SmartZone Communications Center a central online location where Comcast customers can use viewable voicemail to listen to calls or forward them like email, send and receive email and, in the future, remotely program their DVRs.
•Enhanced Cordless Telephone that will enable home phone users to check email and voicemail, send instant messages and access a universal personal address book as well as a yellow pages directory.
At the end of the third quarter of last year, there were 13.5 million VoIP subscribers in the United States. The 71% surge over a year ago is largely thanks to cable operators.
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Cable giant Comcast has become the nation's fourth largest phone company (http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080108005350&newsLang=en). The cable company has signed up three million VoIP customers in just the last two years, leapfrogging Sprint spinoff Embarq to take the fourth spot. The company has had to hire 12,000 people in the past year and a half to help manage VoIP demand, and it will spend $450 million adding telephone customers in 2008. According to Comcast, the following features are coming in '08:•Universal Caller ID to the TV and PC customers can view caller information while watching TV or using their computer.
•SmartZone Communications Center a central online location where Comcast customers can use viewable voicemail to listen to calls or forward them like email, send and receive email and, in the future, remotely program their DVRs.
•Enhanced Cordless Telephone that will enable home phone users to check email and voicemail, send instant messages and access a universal personal address book as well as a yellow pages directory.
At the end of the third quarter of last year, there were 13.5 million VoIP subscribers in the United States. The 71% surge over a year ago is largely thanks to cable operators.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Becomes-Nations-Fourth-Largest-Phone-Company-90783)