Gli operatori via cavo statunitensi hanno guadagnato un enorme vantaggio e sottratto clienti alle telcos proprio grazie al VoIP… ora anche Verizon, che da anni investe nella fibra ottica, annuncia i propri piani per migrare i propri utenti verso il VoIP.

Watching its landline business continue to decline, Verizon (VZ) will shift entirely to VoIP-based calling by 2016, chief marketing officer John Stratton told the Los Angeles Times at CES in Las Vegas.

“The company will start offering Internet calling to its FiOS Web and TV customers in the coming months, starting in Maryland,” Stratton told the newspaper.

Like chief rival AT&T (T), Verizon is losing traditional voice business to upstart VoIP providers, like Vonage, and to the major cable providers who’ve done an effective job at bundling voice service in “triple-play” packages with TV and Internet access. Verizon lost 3.7 million lines in the third quarter of 2008 compared to the same period a year ago.

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