Who says consumers don’t like the latest and greatest technology? Or love their cable company – okay that is a stretch, but still Cox Communications, a smallish cable services provider has seem some amazing strength in demand for new technology. For the third quarter 2003 Cox had

* added 121,744 Digital Cable customers
* added 169,290 high-speed Internet customers, ending the quarter with 1.8 million high-speed Internet customers.
* added 73,019 Cox Digital Telephone customers, ending the quarter with 0.9 million telephone customers.

That cannot be good news for the phone companies, can it