3 Million Added Broadband From Top Providers in 2014

Leichtman Research Group found that the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US -- representing about 94 percent of the market -- acquired 3 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in 2014. Annual net broadband additions in 2014 were 114 percent of the total in 2013. These top broadband providers now account for 87.3 million subscribers -- with cable companies having 51.9 million broadband subscribers, and telephone companies having 35.4 million subscribers. Other key findings include:

• The top cable companies netted 89 percent of the broadband additions in 2014 -- compared to 82 percent of the broadband additions in 2013
• The top cable companies added 2.65 million broadband subscribers in 2014 -- 123 percent of the total net additions for the top cable companies in 2013
• The top telephone companies added about 345,000 subscribers -- 72 percent of the total net additions for the top telephone companies in 2013
• AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS broadband subscribers now account for 53 percent of Telco broadband subscribers -- up from 37 percent at the end of 2012
• The top cable companies had 2.3 million more net additions than phone companies in 2014 -- compared to 1.7 million more net adds in 2013