Page Impressions Ltd Blogcetera: October 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007

US ISP and Cable Subscriber Numbers

I have recently been evaluating the US ISP market and trying to get accurate figures for Internet access for DSL, Cable Access and Dial-up. I worked with OECD published data for Broadband adoption and I have gone through all the reports and disclosures for each of the ISPs shown below. I believe these figures represent a reasonably accurate representation of the genuine adoption of broadband either via DSL or Cable. Broadband connections included in this data cover download speeds equal to or faster than 256kbit/s.

Table 1 US ISP & Cable Operators







Name ADSL Cable Dial Total
AOL

5,100,000 5,100,000
United Online 2,300,000

2,300,000
Road Runner
6,900,000
6,900,000
Earthlink 575,000
1,725,000 2,300,000
Embarq 1,100,000

1,100,000
Cox
3,500,000
3,500,000
Comcast
11,500,000
11,500,000
Charter 2,400,000

2,400,000
Cablevision
2,000,000
2,000,000
Suddenlink Comm
1,400,000
1,400,000
Bright House Networks
2,200,000
2,200,000
AT&T World net/BellSouth/SBC 10,500,000 6,500,000 3,000,000 20,000,000
Insight Communications
600,000
600,000
Verizon 7,000,000

7,000,000
Qwest 2,100,000

2,100,000
Media com
580,000
580,000
Cincinnati Bell 400,000

400,000
Local Net
260,000
260,000
Wind stream
400,000
400,000
Others

30,000,000 30,000,000





Totals 26,375,000 35,840,000 39,825,000 102,040,000






Broadband Total 62,215,000



I believe that this table has the most accurate figures as regards DSL and Cable Access for each of the ISP or Cable Companies detailed in the Table at this point in time. I have not been able to ascertain any accurate data as regards dial-up access which remains surprisingly strong in the US. However, should anyone have any additional data or up to date, please let me know. I will add additional data for the UK and Europe as I can locate them out from published and unpublished sources.

The figure of 62,215,000 Broadband access either via DSL or Cable indicates around 8.7% growth over the figures published by the OECD in December 2006 which seems to be a reasonable assumption. I have included other forms of access either via Satellite or FTTH (Fibre-to-the-home) or FTTB (Fibre-to-the-building). I expect FTTH and FTTB to have grown significantly during 2007, but I haven't any specific data as such.