Comcast Corp. to Test Internet-Telephone Service in Hartford, Conn.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003

By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 10--Comcast Corp., the state's largest cable TV provider, says the Hartford market is one of three places it will test a new service for connecting telephone calls over the Internet.

Scheduled for sometime next year, the test is regarded as a key tryout of an Internet-based phone technology that could pose a major competitive challenge to traditional phone companies.

Kevin Casey, Comcast's senior vice president for New England, said he can not be more specific about when the Internet telephone testing would begin.

But he said the company sees Internet phone calling as the first step in a broader strategy to bring more advanced services to...

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