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Comcast Brushes Off FiOS, U-Verse - Utterly massive company gets...more utterly massive...
DSLreports - front page — ... Comcast issued their third quarter earnings this morning, which indicate that while growth has slowed slightly at the cable giant, the money continues to roll in thanks to a combination of rate hikes and customers adding additional services. The company recorded a quarterly profit of $944 million, up from $771 million one year earlier. The company added 361,000 net broadband subscribers and 375,000 VoIP net customers, and while they lost 132,000 basic cable subscribers, the company added 463,000 net digital TV subscribers. ...

Comcast Is Simply Getting Huge - Quarter additions down slightly but still impressive
DSLreports - front page — ... Comcast issued their third quarter earnings this morning, which indicate that while growth has slowed slightly at the cable giant, the money continues to roll in thanks to a combination of rate hikes and customers adding additional services. The company recorded a quarterly profit of $944 million, up from $771 million one year earlier. The company added 361,000 net broadband subscribers and 375,000 VoIP net customers, lower than predicted growth on both fronts but still respectable in the eyes of Wall Street investors. ...

Voice is Cable’s Secret Weapon for Growth
GigaOM — ... (ending Sept. 30), Time Warner added 117,000 new residential high speed internet customers (up 32% from Q2 net additions of 88,000 subscribers) and 62,000 voice subscribers (down 39 percent from 103,000 new voice customers added during Q2 2009). Comcast on the other hand added another 361,000 broadband subscribers (up 455 percent from 65,000 new additions during the Q2 2009)  and 375,000 voice customers, up 61% from 233,000 new subscribers added during the Q2 2009. ...