The top U.S. cable providers and telcos added...
The top U.S. cable providers and telcos added more than 2.6 million net broadband subscribers in 2013, said Leichtman Research Group Monday. Gains at those 17 companies, which collectively have 93 percent of the U.S. broadband market, were about 95…
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percent of all net broadband subscriber gains for the year, Leichtman said. Top cable companies continued to dominate the U.S. broadband market, ending 2013 with 49.3 million broadband subscribers, compared with 35 million broadband subscribers through top telcos. Comcast added 1.3 million net subscribers in 2013 -- 49 percent of the net adds from top companies, Leichtman said. Top cable companies saw their share of subscriber additions shrink to 82 percent in 2013 from 88 percent in 2012. Top telcos added 480,000 net broadband subscribers in 2013, 146 percent of their total net additions in 2012, Leichtman said (http://bit.ly/1iWcbdo).