Broadband Subscriber Growth Slows

BROADBAND SUBSCRIBER GROWTH SLOWS
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Linda Moss]
Leichtman Research Group finds that the 19 largest US cable and telephone providers are still adding high-speed Internet customers, but at a rate 20% slower than last year. The top broadband providers now have for over 60 million subscribers -- with cable companies counting 32.6 million and telephone companies with about 27.5 million. In related broadband research, LRG’s analysis of the Federal Communications Commission’s recently released report “High-Speed Services for Internet Access: Status as of Dec. 31, 2006” found that: 1) The top five states in residential broadband penetration as of the beginning of 2007 were New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and Connecticut, 2) The bottom five states in residential broadband penetration were Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas and New Mexico, and 3) 87% of cable broadband lines had speeds of over 2.5 mbps in the fastest direction ­ compared to 39% of the telephone providers’ DSL lines.
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