About 8.5 million more U.S. households will start using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for their home phone service over the next two years, according to a new forecast from Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services.

Within the next five years, Americans will be spending more than a third of their daily TV-viewing time watching on-demand programs rather than regularly scheduled shows and events, according to a new forecast by Pike & Fischer.

About 60 percent of all U.S. homes will subscribe to broadband service by the end of the year, but cable operators will come precariously close to losing their majority market share, Pike & Fischer concludes in a new report published by its Broadband Advisory Services unit.

Veteran market analyst Tim McElgunn has been named Chief Analyst, Broadband Advisory Services (BAS) at Pike & Fischer, a leading publisher of market intelligence on advanced communications services.