DUBLIN, Ireland—-Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c33088 ) has announced the addition of Cable Telephony Service: VoIP Drives Subscriber Growth to their offering.

Worldwide cable telephony service revenues rose from $4.5 billion in 2004 to $5.6 billion in 2005, and are projected to reach $10 billion by 2009. The widening availability of VoIP-based cable telephony services has resulted in thousands of new cable telephony subscribers for operators like Time Warner Cable and Cablevision in the United States, Videotron and Shaw Communications in Canada, and Liberty Global in Europe. The high-tech market research firm also notes that VoIP is increasingly becoming the technology of choice for cable operators.

The key attraction for cable operators is the cost advantage that VoIP offers in comparison with circuit-switched service. Based on our analysis, it costs between 17% and 25% less to provision a VoIP cable telephony subscriber than a traditional circuit-switched cable telephony subscriber.

This recent report found the following:

– VoIP-based cable telephony is having a big impact in the U.S. Fuelled by Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cablevision, the author projects that US cable telephony subscriber households will reach 4.4 million by the end of 2006.

– Total worldwide VoIP cable telephony subscriber households are expected to reach almost 7 million by year-end 2006.

– US cable operators are beginning to look beyond wired cable telephony services to the wireless world. In November 2005, several leading cable operators announced an agreement with Sprint Nextel to develop a wireless telephony option for cable TV subscribers.

This Market report covers the market for cable telephony services around the world. It discusses the business case for provisioning cable telephony services, looks closely at the transition from circuit-switched services to VoIP, and breaks down cable telephony’s cost structure by specific network architecture. It also provides forecasts for worldwide subscribers, VoIP subscribers, and installed cable telephony lines through 2009 and forecasts service revenues and “Voice-over-Broadband” subscribers over the next five years.

Topics Covered
Executive Summary
Methodology
Cable Telephony Services
The Market in Late 2005
Market Drivers for Cable Telephony
The Progression of Voice over Cable: Circuit-Switched to VoIP
Delivering Cable Telephony: Network Architectures Converge
The Circuit-Switched Network
The “Switched-IP” Network Architecture
VoIP Networks
IP-Enabled Voice Service
The IP Connection
The IP Network and the PSTN
Types of IP Telephony
VoIP In an HFC Network
IP Network Architecture
e Twisted-Pair Overlay Network
Technology Standards for VoIP-Based Cable Telephony
Cable Modem Technology Standards
DOCSIS 1.1
DOCSIS 2.0
DOCSIS 3.0
International Standards
PacketCable
PacketCable 2.0
PacketCable Multimedia
IPCablecom
Key Market Trends
VoIP Comes on Strong
Integrating Wireless Voice Into the Cable Service Bundle
Cable Telephony Costs: Circuit-Switched vs. VoIP
Cable Telephony Service Providers
North America
United States
Adelphia
Bright House Networks
Comcast
Cablevision
Charter Communications
Cox Communications
GCI
Insight Communications
RCN
Time Warner Cable
Canada
Europe
NTL
Telewest
Liberty Global
Other Operators
Rest of World (ROW)
Australia
Chile
Japan
Mexico
Voice-over-Broadband: A Viable Option for VoIP
Vonage
Net2Phone
Cable Telephony Service Forecasts
Subscriber Forecasts
Revenue Forecast

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List of Figures

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