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The Broadband Market Is Slowing Down
A closer look at the second quarter numbers...
by Karl Bode Thursday 16-Aug-2007 tags: competition · business · stats
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Leichtman Research Group crunches the second quarter broadband numbers, and notes that the nineteen largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. (accounting for 94% of the market) added 1.7 million net additional broadband customers.

As we've discussed, the traditionally slow second quarter was even slower than usual for broadband growth, which Pew Internet recently attributed to a slowdown in the market. As the low-hanging fruit (dial-up converts) gets picked, ISPs are focusing more on customer retention and bundle pricing battles.

Ironically Leichtman finds that the only major broadband provider to record significantly more net broadband additions in the second quarter year over year was Charter, who usually ranks dead last in customer satisfaction. Cable operators control 54% of the broadband market, with a 5.1 million subscriber edge over DSL providers.

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jlsamsel

join:2006-08-26
Stixville

BB market slowing down

...or they could offer BB to areas they've overlooked in the past.

Please?
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Karl Bode
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Re: BB market slowing down

Now you're just talking crazy talk....

shoan1

@swbell.net
agree totally They are going to have to get a ladder and start reaching for the fruit that can not be picked from the ground on the tree of new customers.

Romney2012
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USA
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9 out of top 19 account for lions share of broadband

5 Cable companies
Comcast
Time Warner
Cox
Charter
Cablevision

and 4 Telcos
AT&T
Verizon
Qwest
Embarq

pretty much own broadband in the US.

An interesting question is what does the report consider broadband. The news release doesn't really say and you have to pay to see the actual report and the assumptions. Do they include all the cellphone broadband numbers in their stats?
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
kudos:1

Fine.

If the BB market is slowing down WHY are caps then?

Bells and cable both push internet to the point of caps.
At that rate whats the use of BB again? SH** might go back to dial up then.

dmeyer

join:2002-08-14
Austin, TX

Re: Fine.

Oh, stop being so melodramatic. Why are people here always bitching about caps? If you read the fine print there is no such thing as unlimited. On dial up it would take you 10 years to transfer the amount of data the cable companies let you transfer in one day. I wish people would quit whining about caps, 99% of these people don't have a legitimate need to transfer so much data in a monthly period. Be happy that they aren't charging you for overage. If the demand is there for legitimate purposes, the caps will go away or be increased as the companies can add backbone capacity. Have you seen how expensive CMTSes are?

i1me2ao
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join:2001-03-03
TEXAS

Re: Fine.

people whine about caps because commercials either say specifically unlimited or imply unlimited. for example you can share video with all your family etc etc.
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Stumbles

join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL

Re: Fine.

Yep and that's precisely what the whiners that whine about those who whine about caps don't want to discus. The ISPs ENCOURAGES you via marketing koolade to use applications that are KNOWN to consume large amounts of bandwidth.
darkcrucible

join:2007-06-07
This is feeling like a stupid post already but whatever.

Assuming a saturated 56k connection for 10 years, you would get: 2.605E+12 bytes. With a saturated 10mbit connection for one day, you'd get 1.3246E+11. In order to achieve tens years worth of 56k downloads, you'd have to leave your 10mbit connection on for approximately 20 days (assuming my calculations aren't completely incorrect). If you wanted to download 10 years worth of a 56k connection in one day, you'd need approximately a 25mbit/s connection.

note: for some reason I used 56k connection to mean 56*1024 bits/s and 10mbit to mean 10485760 bits/s. Also, I do not take into account any sort of overhead. And yes, these simple calculations amuse me.
Stumbles

join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL
Ah... another knucklehead deciding for me what I can do with my connection and using the redherring "legitimate" as an excuse.

I wish knuckleheads would stop whining about those who whine about caps.

BTW, from which orifice did you pull that 99% because it stinks.

greendragon
Premium
join:2003-09-20
Stewartville, MN

Charter gained me this quarter....

Then lost me with in two months...

I got qwest instead.
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