About 520,000 high-speed Internet subscribers were acquired by...
About 520,000 high-speed Internet subscribers were acquired by the 17 largest cable and telephone providers in the third quarter this year. The top broadband providers, like Time Warner Cable and Verizon, “now account for over 83.6 million subscribers,” Leichtman Research…
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Group analysts said in a research note (http://bit.ly/1issnAc). The top cable companies accounted for 84 percent of the net broadband additions for the quarter versus the top telephone companies, it said. The cable companies added about 440,000 subs, a 76 percent increase compared to the same period last year, it said. The telephone companies gained about 80,000 subs, “compared to a gain of about 4,000” in Q3 2012, Leichtman said. In the first three quarters of 2013, the top providers added about 1.9 million subs, “compared to about 2,150,000 in the first three quarters of 2012,” it said.