Comcast, Time Warner Cable get 71% of new Internet subscribers

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Comcast and Time Warner Cable are dominating the market for new wireline Internet subscribers, with AT&T and Verizon lagging far behind.

Cable already had a majority of the broadband market, even when you count slow DSL as "broadband," and that majority is growing.

"Comcast and Time Warner Cable led the growth in US broadband subscriptions during the third quarter, adding a combined 552,000 new subscribers," Strategy Analytics wrote last week. "Overall, cable operators in the US added 804,000 subscribers. However, the total number of US broadband subscribers only increased by 679,000 due to losses in DSL and slower growth in Fiber subscriptions at AT&T and Verizon. Over the past twelve months, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have accounted for 71 percent of the 3 million new broadband subscribers."

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