Broadband Internet Has Record Quarter According to the recent release from the Leichtman Research Group, the twenty largest cable and DSL providers in the US - representing about 95% of
the market - achieved record net additions in the third quarter of 2004.
LRG found that combined net additions for the quarter totaled over 2.3 million subscribers - a total that slightly
exceeded the previous record set in the first quarter of 2004. The top broadband providers now account for over 30.9 million high-speed Internet subscribers, with cable having nearly 18.8 million
broadband subscribers, and DSL having close to 12.2 million subscribers.
Other key findings include:
- The top cable providers added 1.28 million subscribers, representing 55% of
the net broadband additions for the quarter versus DSL
- rebounding from last quarter when DSL, for the first quarter ever, had a greater share of net additions than cable
- The top cable
broadband providers retain a 6.6 million subscriber advantage over DSL and have a 61% share of the total market versus DSL
- In the past year, from the end of third quarter of 2003 to the end of
the third quarter of 2004, cable and DSL added 8.3 million net subscribers - a record for any one year period
| Provider | Subscribers at End of Q3 2004 | Net Adds in Q3 2004 |
| Cable |
| Comcast | 6,554,000 | 549,000 |
| Time Warner | 3,716,000 | 168,000 |
| Cox | 2,430,555 | 184,446 |
| Charter | 1,819,900 | 108,500 |
| Adelphia** | 1,253,407 | 85,605 |
| Cablevision | 1,259,024 | 79,984 |
| Bright House Networks* | 700,000 | 25,000 |
| Mediacom | 350,000 | 23,000 |
| Insight | 311,500 | 37,600 |
| RCN* | 215,000 | 5,000 |
| Cable One | 165,600 | 13,300 |
| Total Top Cable | 18,774,986 | 1,279,435 |
| DSL |
| SBC | 4,679,000 | 402,000 |
| Verizon | 3,253,000 | 309,000 |
| Bell South | 1,872,000 | 134,000 |
| Qwest | 956,000 | 103,000 |
| Covad | 524,900 | 10,555 |
| Sprint | 432,000 | 49,000 |
| ALLTEL | 216,885 | 22,351 |
| Cincinnati Bell | 123,000 | 6,000 |
| Century Tel | 120,869 | 12,049 |
| Total Top DSL | 12,177,654 | 1,047,955 |
| Total
Broadband | 30,952,640 | 2,327,390 |
Sources: The
Companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc.
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