U.S. Cable Operators Get 75% of First Quarter 2012 Broadband Adds

The seventeen largest U.S. cable and telephone providers acquired 1.3 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2012. 

The top cable companies have more than 45.3 million broadband subscribers, and top telephone companies having over 34.6 million subscribers.

The top cable companies added about 980,000 subscribers, representing 75 percent of the net broadband additions for the quarter, compared to the top telephone companies.

The top cable broadband providers have a 57 percent share of the overall market, with about 10.7 million more subscribers than the top telephone companies, compared to 8.9 million more a year ago

Broadband Internet Provider	Subscribers at End of 1Q 2012	Net Adds in 1Q 2012
Cable Companies
Comcast	18,582,000	439,000
Time Warner^	11,136,000	227,000
Cox*	4,530,000	30,000
Charter	3,802,000	147,000
Cablevision	3,007,000	42,000
Suddenlink	982,600	31,200
Mediacom	887,000	36,000
Cable ONE	463,443	12,361
Other Major Private Cable Companies**	1,941,000	16,000
Total Top Cable	45,331,043	980,561
Telephone Companies
AT&T	16,530,000	103,000
Verizon	8,774,000	104,000
CenturyLink	5,643,000	89,000
Frontier^^	1,746,000	11,000
Windstream	1,363,800	8,500
FairPoint	318,510	4,375
Cincinnati Bell	257,200	(100)
Total Top Telephone Companies	34,632,510	319,775
Total Broadband	79,963,553	1,300,336