Front page of the business section in the Globe and Mail this morning: Bell, Telus face erosion in market share. Convergence Consulting Group is forecasting residential line share loss at 7% for Bell this year, and 5% for Telus. Primarily due to the low cost of entry for VoIP technology, cable companies will capture 6.5% of the residential market this year, 16% by end of 2007, and 27% by the end of 2009.
More details on Convergence’s report can be found on their website. Interestingly enough, Convergence predicts that US cable companies will have less impact in the US residential telephone market than we are likely to experience here in Canada.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
