Word: koppman
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...half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside the 112 million traditional phone lines. But Citron's outfit is adding 1,000 new customers every day. "He's been sort of a nuisance and a prod," says Steve Koppman, a telecom analyst with Gartner. "He has proved out the concept in the marketplace before the big players...
...similar offerings for $35 and $25 a month, respectively, since last year. But support of VOIP by AT&T, the largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., promises to bring the technology into the mainstream. "AT&T's entry should broadly legitimize VOIP for residential customers," says Steve Koppman, principal analyst for Gartner Group Dataquest. Research firm InStat/MDR estimates that as more major players, including Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (a sister company of TIME), roll out their announced VOIP services, the number of residential VOIP subscribers will rise from about...