Top cable operators added fewer broadband subscribers last...
Top cable operators added fewer broadband subscribers last quarter than in Q1 2012, while major telcos’ growth rate was little changed, an industry research firm said Tuesday. Cable’s growth of 800,000 subscribers to 47.5 million was 82 percent as many…
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as added in the year-ago quarter, said Leichtman Research Group. “AT&T and Verizon added 919,000 fiber subscribers (via U-verse and FiOS) in 1Q 2013, while having a net loss of 696,000 DSL subscribers. U-verse and FiOS now account for 40 percent of the top telephone companies’ broadband subscribers -- compared to 32 percent a year ago.” The researcher said Monday that cable operators lost subscribers in Q1 while telcos added them (CD May 21 p13), and it said Tuesday telcos have 34.9 million total broadband customers.