Independent VoIP companies such as Vonage have struggled to maintain subscribers in the last year due to a variety of different reasons including increased competition from cable VoIP operators. Subscriber growth for the one-year period ending in the first quarter of this year was less than 200,000 for independent VoIP companies; this amount equals less than one fifth of the new subscribers from the previous year. In contrast, cable VoIP subscriptions increased by over five and a half million in the same time period. This has helped cable operators to not only beat out independent VoIP companies but also to steal landline customers.
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