The big get bigger with the latest broadband growth numbers

Comcast took the lion’s share of new broadband subscriber additions in 2013 proving that the largest provider has a clear advantage over its smaller counterparts.

According to the Leichtman Research Group, the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US -- representing about 93 percent of the market -- acquired over 2.6 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in 2013. That’s slightly less than the net adds from 2012. Comcast added about 1.3 million broadband subscribers in 2013 – accounting for 49 percent of the total net additions for all providers in the year.

On the telco side, Verizon added the most new subscribers with 220,000 new subs, or a bit less than 10 percent of the total net adds. Most of the net adds — 82 percent — came from the cable companies, although it appears that thanks to new fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-node deployments, telcos did get a greater percentage of the new additions in 2013 compared to 2012.