Other broadband findings for the quarter include:
Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for LRG, Inc., said "Over the past two quarters the top cable providers accounted for 71% of the net broadband additions... cable's recent success... is more a function of the telcos' shift in focus towards higher value subscribers while cable has been... marketing broadband as part of its nearly ubiquitously available Triple Play bundles."
Cable & Telephone Internet Providers | ||
Broadband Internet Provider | Subscribers at End of 3Q 2008 | Net Adds in 3Q 2008 |
Cable Companies | ||
Comcast | 14,738,000 | 381,000 |
Time Warner | 8,634,000 | 222,000 |
Cox | 3,945,000 | 60,000 |
Charter | 2,858,200 | 70,900 |
Cablevision | 2,427,000 | 32,000 |
Mediacom | 726,000 | 24,000 |
Insight | 445,100 | 20,500 |
Cable ONE | 368,614 | 7,345 |
RCN | 301,000 | 6,000 |
Other Major Private Cable Companies | 2,050,000 | 50,000 |
Total Top Cable | 36,492,914 | 873,745 |
Telephone Companies | ||
AT&T | 14,841,000 | 148,000 |
Verizon | 8,459,000 | 129,000 |
Qwest | 2,793,000 | 61,000 |
Embarq | 1,388,000 | 24,000 |
Windstream | 962,700 | 28,400 |
CenturyTel | 628,000 | 21,000 |
Frontier | 571,946 | 12,646 |
FairPoint | 294,134 | (278) |
Cincinnati Bell | 231,100 | 2,100 |
Total Top Telephone Companies | 30,168,880 | 425,868 |
Total Broadband | 66,661,794 | 1,299,613 |
Sources: The Companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc. |
And, selections from a separate LRG study HDTV 2008: Consumer Awareness, Interest and Ownership, show that 34% of U.S. households have at least one HDTV set, about double the percentage of households that had such TVs two years ago. Overall, 22% of all households purchased a new TV set in the past 12 months, with 43% of this group spending over $1,000 on a new TV.
LRG estimates that about 58% of all HD households are now watching HD programming from a multi-channel video provider, up from 53% last year. However, about 18% of individuals with an HDTV continue to think that they are watching HD programming, but are not.
Other findings include:
For more information about the LRG Broadband study, please visit here, or about HDTV, visit here.
Glad to see the headline got corrected on the website if not in the newsletter.