Thursday, January 14, 2021

At least 75% of U.S. Broadband Customers Get a Minimum of 100 Mbps Downstream

Looking only at the U.S. cable companies plus Verizon, and omitting AT&T and CenturyLink, fully 75 percent of U.S. fixed network subscribers receive an average speed of at least 100 Mbps. AT&T customers represent another 15 percent getting an average of 85 Mbps. 


That analysis combines Speedtest data on U.S. fixed network speeds in July 2020 with internet service provider account volume supplied by Leichtman Research Group.


The exercise is to overlay average speeds for the major internet service providers with the number of subscribers each ISP has, to get a sense of the typical experience. For the exercise, use Speedtest measurements of July 2020 speeds and Leichtman Research Group’s analysis of ISP account volume for the third quarter of 2020. 


Where Speedtest did not report average speeds, we use other available third party measurements. 

source: Speedtest 


We rounded up Charter's average speed of 95 Mbps and included it in the analysis of 100 Mbps (or faster) average downstream services. We did not do so for AT&T. 

Broadband Providers

Subscribers at end of 3Q 2020

Net Adds in 3Q 2020


Cable Companies



Comcast

30,062,000

633,000

Charter

28,633,000

537,000

Cox*

5,330,000

50,000

Altice**

4,363,500

26,000

Mediacom

1,425,000

29,000

Cable One**

865,000

27,000

WOW (WideOpenWest)

808,900

3,300

Atlantic Broadband

492,212

13,523


Total Top Cable

71,979,612

1,318,823


Wireline Phone Companies



AT&T

15,375,000

174,000

Verizon

7,069,000

110,000

CenturyLink/Lumen^

4,563,000

(75,000)

Frontier

3,119,000

(23,000)

Windstream

1,102,300

12,900

Consolidated

792,211

1,008

TDS

487,700

8,200

Cincinnati Bell

434,500

2,500


Total Top Telco

32,942,711

210,608


Total Top Broadband

104,922,323

1,529,431

source: Leichtman Research Group 





Subs

% of total ISP

Average Speed

Accts = 100+

% 100 Mbps+

Comcast

30,062,000

28.65%

108

30,062,000


Charter

28,633,000

27.29%

95

28,633,000


Cox*

5,330,000

5.08%

102

5,330,000


Altice**

4,363,500

4.16%

100

3,927,150

https://stopthecap.com/2018/03/05/altice-usa-90-new-customers-want-broadband-speeds-100-mbps/

Mediacom

1,425,000

1.36%


1,425,000

https://broadbandnow.com/Mediacom-Cable-speed-test

Cable One**

865,000

0.82%


865,000

https://www.reviews.org/internet-service/sparklight-internet-review/

WOW

808,900

0.77%


808,900

https://broadbandnow.com/WOW!-speed-test#:~:text=As%20of%20December%202020%2C%20the,in%20the%205%E2%80%9370ms%20range.

Atlantic Broadband

492,212

0.47%


492,212

https://myspeedcheck.net/speedtest/atlantic-broadband







Total Top Cable

71,979,612











AT&T

15,375,000

14.65%

83



Verizon

7,069,000

6.74%

117

7,069,000


CenturyLink/Lumen^

4,563,000

4.35%

36



Frontier

3,119,000

2.97%




Windstream

1,102,300

1.05%




Consolidated

792,211

0.76%




TDS

487,700

0.46%




Cincinnati Bell

434,500

0.41%










Total Top Telco

32,942,711











Total Top Broadband

104,922,323



78,612,262

75%

Source: IP Carrier analysis


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