It is not yet clear whether U.S. tier-one telcos actually can reverse the cable operator domination of high speed access services.
"Over the past year, cable companies added more than 3.5 million broadband subscribers, accounting for 118 percent of the 2.995 million net broadband additions," said Bruce Leichtman, Leichtman Research Group president. Telco providers have had net broadband losses in five of the past six quarters.
In the first three quarters of 2016, cable companies added about 2,440,000 broadband subscribers, while telcos lost about 475,000 subscribers
Cable companies represented all of the net account growth in the third quarter of 2016 as well.
Broadband Internet
|
Subscribers at End
of 3Q 2016
|
Net Adds in
3Q 2016
|
Cable Companies
| ||
Comcast
|
24,316,000
|
329,000
|
Charter
|
22,202,000
|
387,000
|
Altice
|
4,122,000
|
17,000
|
Mediacom
|
1,145,000
|
17,000
|
WOW (WideOpenWest)*
|
728,400
|
2,700
|
Cable ONE
|
510,573
|
2,256
|
Other Major Private Company**
|
4,765,000
|
20,000
|
Total Top Cable
|
57,788,973
|
774,956
|
Phone Companies
| ||
AT&T
|
15,618,000
|
(23,000)
|
Verizon
|
7,038,000
|
24,000
|
CenturyLink
|
5,950,000
|
(40,000)
|
Frontier^
|
4,404,000
|
(99,000)
|
Windstream
|
1,063,000
|
(12,800)
|
FairPoint
|
309,547
|
(1,893)
|
Cincinnati Bell
|
299,800
|
3,100
|
Total Top Phone Companies
|
34,682,347
|
(149,593)
|
Total Broadband
|
92,471,320
|
625,563
|
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