Cablevision Growing VoIP

With Cablevision now boasting over 72,000 Internet phone users one has to ask if Vonage's Jeff Citron is starting to worry.

One has to figure that with the cable companies working with the likes of AT&T and Level3 for network and transport services, plus peering, that this is a significant shift in where telephony's share of wallet is going.

I look at the cable companies as the looming giants in VoIP, but on a largely residential level for now. They have a truely unfair marketing advantage over all the others. First the mail a bill every month to a customer. Second they have media available, their cable systems commercial availabilities, to promote the services.

But most importantly, they can offer the bundled solution. My good friend Bob Cox, editor of The National Debate, has been using the service since it became available. I was one of his first calls and our subesequent calls have been pristine and clear as a, um, BELL.