The seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US, representing about 93 percent of the market, acquired over 2.6 million net additional internet subscribers in 2013, according to a new report from Leichtman Research Group. Annual net broadband additions in 2013 were 95 percent of the total in 2012. These top broadband providers now account for 84.6 million subscribers, with cable companies having 49.3 million broadband subscribers and telephone companies having 35.0 million subscribers.
The top cable companies netted 82 percent of the broadband additions in 2013, down from 88 percent of broadband additions the prior year. The top cable companies added nearly 2.2 million broadband subscribers, accounting for 89 percent of the total net additions in 2012.
Comcast added about 1.3 million broadband subscribers in 2013, accounting for 49 percent of the total net additions for the top providers. The top telephone providers added 480,000 broadband subscribers. AT&T and Verizon added 3.3 million fibre subscribers (via U-verse and FiOS) in 2013, while having a net loss of 3.05 million DSL subscribers. U-verse and FiOS broadband subscribers now account for 47 percent of Telco broadband subscribers, up from 29 percent at the end of 2011.
