What would you do in entering the voice marketplace if you had nothing to lose and everything to gain? Cable is uniquely positioned to treat voice as an incremental, and compete head-on with the ILECs. This panel shares the adoption rates and their experiences using the technology.

Michael Harris is president of Kinetic Strategies, Inc. and publisher of Cable Digital News, an information service offering in-depth coverage of the broadband communications and entertainment market. A leading broadband industry analyst, Michael's insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Additionally, the FCC has utilized Michael's research in its broadband market reporting. Michael is a frequent speaker at key industry events, having presented at VON, VORTEX, BusinessWeek Telecom Summit and Forbes Telecosm. Michael first became interested in broadband in 1994 while working for Virginia-based MSO Media General Cable (later acquired by Cox Communications).

Mr. Jablon is responsible for the Digital Phone product offering from Time Warner Cable. Digital Phone is a comprehensive residential telephone service offered to Time Warner Cable subscribers over cable infrastructure.

Previously, Mike led go to market initiatives for software, hardware and service providers including IBM, Vonage, Sylantro, VocalTec and CTSTel resulting in numerous VoIP products and services in the market today and is a former Board member of the VON Coalition. He holds a BS in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo and completed the Executive Marketing Management Program at Columbia University.

Mike is responsible for product management and marketing of Cox’s telephone service, now with over 1.2 million customers. Mike is currently guiding Cox through the implementation of VoIP technology with the recent successful launch in Roanoke, VA. Mike joined Cox after spending three years at Cbeyond Communications, a VoIP based CLEC in Atlanta, helping the company build and launch its first product suite. Mike also worked for BellSouth Long Distance for three years and MCI for 11 years in a variety of marketing management positions. Mike is a graduate of Bryant College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and holds and M.B.A. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

With 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Tom White is the Vice President of Marketing for Comcast Digital Phone service, a full suite of local and long distance services with more than 1.2M customers Tom joined Comcast after spending more than four years at Cox Communications, growing their phone business to more than 600K customers in 9 markets.

Prior to joining the cable industry, Tom spent 8 years with AT&T in a variety of management positions including commercial sales, consumer marketing, and product management. A graduate of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics, Tom also received an MBA in Marketing from Rutgers University.