Those improvements, and related upgrades to support gigabit speeds and entertainment video will be crucial for CenturyLink, which in its second quarter of 2015 lost high speed access accounts. To be sure, the second quarter historically is seasonally low.
But that hasn’t stopped other Internet service providers--nearly all cable TV companies-- from adding net customers. Just about all the larger U.S. telcos actually lost customers during the quarter.
If one assumes consumer segment growth is possible primarily in the high speed Internet access and entertainment TV services, Internet access account growth arguably is crucial, as Prism video services generally require the faster speed access services.
CenturyLink Consumer Segment Accounts
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June 30, 2015
|
June 30, 2014
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Operating Metrics (thousands)
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Broadband subscribers
|
6,108
|
6,055
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Access lines
|
12,109
|
12,707
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Prism subscribers
|
258
|
214
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source: CenturyLink
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U.S. Internet Service Provider Net Additions, Second Quarter 2015
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Firms
|
Subscribers at End
of 2Q 2015
|
Net Adds in
2Q 2015
|
Cable Companies
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Comcast
|
22,548,000
|
179,000
|
Time Warner Cable
|
12,770,000
|
189,000
|
Charter
|
5,294,000
|
86,000
|
Cablevision
|
2,781,000
|
14,000
|
Suddenlink
|
1,180,800
|
(2,800)
|
Mediacom
|
1,051,000
|
10,000
|
WOW (WideOpenWest)
|
713,100
|
(8,900)
|
Cable ONE
|
497,036
|
457
|
Other Major Private Cable Companies*
|
6,640,000
|
45,000
|
Total Top Cable
|
53,474,936
|
511,757
|
Telephone Companies
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AT&T
|
15,961,000
|
(136,000)
|
Verizon
|
9,221,000
|
(25,000)
|
CenturyLink
|
6,108,000
|
(9,000)
|
Frontier^
|
2,388,500
|
29,000
|
Windstream
|
1,120,800
|
(11,600)
|
FairPoint
|
317,100
|
(1,278)
|
Cincinnati Bell
|
275,100
|
2,400
|
Total Top Telephone Companies
|
35,391,500
|
(151,478)
|
Total Broadband
|
88,866,436
|
360,279
|
Sources: The Companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc.
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