Record Additions to Broadband According to Broadband Across the US, a recent report from the Leichtman Research Group, the twenty largest cable and DSL providers in the US,
representing about 94% of the market, acquired a record 3.06 million net additional subscribers in the first quarter of 2006. The top broadband providers now account for nearly 46 million high-speed
Internet subscribers, with cable having nearly 25.8 million broadband subscribers, and DSL having about 20.2 million subscribers.
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Other key findings for the quarter include:
- The top DSL providers added 1.66 million subscribers, representing 54% of the net broadband additions for the quarter versus cable
- The top cable
providers also had a record quarter with over 1.4 million subscribers added
- DSL providers have added more broadband subscribers than cable providers in each of the last six
quarters, but the top cable broadband providers maintain a 5.6 million subscriber advantage over DSL and have a 56% share of the US residential broadband market
| Subscribers |
Broadband Internet Provider | End of 1Q 2006 | Net Adds in 1Q 2006 |
CABLE | | |
Comcast | 8,957,000 | 437,000 |
Time Warner |
5,168,000 | 346,000 |
Charter | 2,322,400 | 126,000 |
Adelphia | 1,808,004 | 100,554 |
Cablevision |
1,806,623 | 112,289 |
Insight | 514,800 | 44,400 |
Mediacom | 504,000 | 26,000 |
Cable One |
253,059 | 18,959 |
Major Privately Held
Cable Companies* | 4,190,000 | 191,700
|
Total Top Cable | 25,727,886 | 1,407,902 |
DSL | | |
AT&T | 7,432,000 |
511,000 |
Verizon** | 5,685,000
| 541,000 |
Bell South | 3,145,000 | 263,000 |
Qwest | 1,678,000 |
180,000 |
Sprint | 777,000 | 84,000 |
Covad | 556,950 | (10,225) |
ALLTEL | 441,475 |
43,779 |
Century Tel | 285,791
| 37,085 |
Cincinnati Bell | 171,000 | 8,500 |
Total Top DSL | 20,172,216 | 1,658,139 |
Total Broadband | 45,945,102 | 3,066,041 |
Sources: The Companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc. |
In related broadband research, LRG found that as of the middle of last
year:
- 85% of cable broadband lines had speeds of over 2.5 mbps in the fastest direction, compared to 14% of DSL lines
- Approximately 11.5% of
DSL subscribers were non-residential, compared to 1.8% of cable subscribers
- The top five states in residential broadband penetration were Connecticut, New Jersey, Hawaii,
Massachusetts and California
- The bottom five states in residential broadband penetration were Mississippi, South Dakota, North Dakota, Kentucky and Montana
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