Durham, New Hampshire—Leichtman Research Group reports that the largest U.S. cable and wireline telephone providers and fixed wireless services, representing about 96% of the market, gained about 3.52 million net broadband Internet subscribers in 2023. I am. This is similar to pro forma subscriber growth of 3.53 million. In 2022.
However, all of these gains were due to the expansion of fixed wireless/5G services, with T-Mobile and Verizon’s fixed wireless/5G home internet services adding approximately 3,665,000 subscribers in 2023 (2022 The net increase in 2017 was approximately 3,185,000 people). In contrast, cable operators lost about 65,000 subscribers in 2023, compared to about 530,000 net additions in 2022.
LRG reported that major wireline carriers lost a total of about 80,000 broadband subscribers in 2023, but the net loss in 2022 was about 180,000.
LRG reports that the top broadband providers have approximately 114.7 million total subscribers, the top cable companies have 76.1 million broadband subscribers, the top wireline carriers have more than 30.7 million subscribers, and the top fixed-line carriers have more than 30.7 million subscribers. The wireless service has more than 7.8 million subscribers.
“Top broadband providers added approximately 3.5 million subscribers in 2023, which is similar to the number of broadband additions they added in 2022,” said Leichtman Research Group President and Principal Analyst. Bruce Leichtman said. He has 1 million broadband subscribers, compared to a net broadband increase of about 10.2 million over the past four years (pre-pandemic). ”
LRG also expects fixed wireless services to account for 90% of broadband net additions in 2023, with wireline carriers achieving approximately 1.97 million net additions via fiber in 2023, offset by approximately 2.05 million non-fiber net losses. reported that it accounted for 104% of the total. Net additions will increase in 2022 and 20% of net additions will occur in 2021.
Comcast remained the largest broadband provider, down 66,000 subscribers to 32,253,000, followed by Charter (30,588,000, up 155,000), AT&T (15,288,000, down 98,000), and Verizon (7,650,000, up 166,000).
In fixed wireless services, T-Mobile led the way with an increase of 2.13 million to 4.776 million, followed by Verizon (3.067 million, up 1.536 million). Altis (4,517,900, down 114,100).
