Slow High Speed Access Gains in U.S. Market, Second Quarter 2012

The seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the United States, representing about 93 percent of the market, acquired about 260,000 net high-speed Internet subscribers in the second quarter of 2012, according to Leichtman Research Group.

That is the fewest of any quarter in the eleven years LRG has been tracking the industry. The top cable companies added about 330,000 subscribers. 

The top telephone companies lost about 70,000 subscribers, LRG says. 

AT&T and Verizon added 669,000 fiber-based high speed subscribers, though, while having a net loss of 763,000 DSL subscribers. 

Broadband Internet Provider	Subscribers at End of 2Q 2012	Net Adds in 2Q 2012
Cable Companies
Comcast	18,738,000	156,000
Time Warner	11,208,000	72,000
Cox*	4,555,000	25,000
Charter	3,839,000	37,000
Cablevision	3,032,000	25,000
Suddenlink	979,400	(3,200)
Mediacom	894,000	7,000
Cable ONE	462,426	(1,017)
Other Major Private Cable Companies**	1,951,000	10,000
Total Top Cable	45,658,826	327,783
Telephone Companies
AT&T	16,434,000	(96,000)
Verizon	8,776,000	2,000
CenturyLink^	5,763,000	18,000
Frontier^^	1,751,000	5,000
Windstream	1,361,600	(2,200)
FairPoint	320,812	2,302
Cincinnati Bell	257,600	400
Total Top Telephone Companies	34,664,012	(70,498)
Total Broadband	80,332,838	257,285

Sources: The Companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc.