Telecom Competition

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Telecom Competition

• Cable Companies Continue to Grow
• Cablevision customers, as of Q4 2005
• 1.694 million high-speed data subscribers
• 731,341 Optimum Voice (VoIP) customers
• Time Warner customers, as of Q4 2005
• 1.1 million voice subscribers
• Wall Street analysts cite the halo effect
  cable companies that offer VoIP are seeing gains
  in their basic cable subscribers, driven by their
  telephone service
• Wireless Is Becoming a Substitution For Many, up
  14 year/year
• A new survey from the AP, AOL and the Pew
  Research Center examined cell phone trends and
  usage habits of U.S. mobile phone users
• 40 of users between the ages of 18 and 29 are
  likely to drop their landline phone
• 8 indicated they are very likely to drop their
  landline phone and solely use their wireless
  service
• According to Forrester Research (3/31/06), in
  2005, about 7 of households that subscribe to
  mobile phone services gave up their landline
  phones

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NY Telecom Competition

• More than 11 million wireless users in NY State,
  exceeding the number of wireline customers
• As of Q4 05, Verizon had 9.2 million retail
  access lines
• Providers of High-Speed Lines by Technology
  (6/05)
• ADSL/SDSL 56 providers
• Traditional wireline 22 providers
• Cable Modem 12 providers
• Fiber 12 providers
• Fixed Wireless - 9 providers
• 3.19M total high-speed lines served by all
  technologies
• 81 of NY residents have access to DSL
• 98 of NY residents have access to cable modems