Roberts Sees Barriers.(Brian Roberts )

Multichannel News, November, 2006

By Ted Hearn Asks State Rulemakers for Help With Bolstering Cable VoIP Competition Washington-- Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts last week in Miami appealed to state regulators for help in removing regulatory hurdles that serve to frustrate his company's ability to roll out digital telephone service.

Comcast has staked its future in part on taking phone customers away from incumbent phone giants like AT&T and Verizon Communications. The cable company's deployment of voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has attracted 1 million customers so far, with 8 million more expected to join Comcast's voice-customer base by 2009. However promising that all may sound, Roberts said in a speech to the National Association of Regulatory...

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