Cable is cheaper and faster than phone lines, and more cable companies will also offer local telephone service.

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But increasing numbers of users are ditching their phone-company-owned phone lines and relying on just a cable telephone.

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Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg literally started his career in the phone industry at the bottom, descending into manholes to splice cable for New York Telephone.

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