Cable, Phone Broadband Subscribers Increasing at Faster Pace Compared With 2013, Reports Leichtman
The 17 largest U.S. cable and phone providers added more than 700,000 net additional broadband subscribers in Q3, said a research firm Tuesday. Top cable companies have more than 51.2 million broadband subscribers, and top phone companies have nearly 35.4…
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million subscribers, Leichtman Research Group said Tuesday in a news release. Over the past year, there were more than 2.9 million net broadband adds, up from 2.54 million the previous year, it said. Comcast added 315,000 subscribers in Q3, and Time Warner Cable, which plans to sell itself to Comcast, added 108,000 subscribers, Leichtman Research said. Verizon added 69,000 subscribers, and CenturyLink added 8,000, it said.