USA - Fixed Broadband Market - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 7 Jan 2019 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 79

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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The US broadband market is seeing significant investment activity in fibre deployments, HFC upgrades with DOCSIS3.1 technology, and to a lesser extent G.fast. In addition, the market players are in the forefront with developing technologies and services based on 5G, which will facilitate the ability of customers to access their bundled services.

For some years much of the investment in fibre was undertaken by a number of smaller players and municipalities rather than the two key telcos, AT&T and Verizon, which had concentrated on a hybrid fibre/copper network. However, since 2017 these two operators have been fully focussed on FttP, shifting their investment efforts from a hybrid fibre-copper architecture. AT&T alone aims to cover almost 13 million premises with FttP by mid-2019. Verizon had a patchy experience with its FttN rollouts and so has chosen to switch deployment to FttP.

Although Google Fiber, as one of the key proponents of gigabit services, began scaling back its efforts at the end of the year it still promotes services in a number of markets. Altice USA is among those traditional cable broadband providers which have switched investments to fibre, believing that services based on GPON technology can be rendered more cost effective by using aerial rather than underground cabling.

There is growing recognition of the importance of a trans-sectoral approach to broadband networks, including the health, education and energy sectors, in order to fully realise the benefits of the nascent digital economy. The FCC’s Eight Fixed Broadband report, published in December 2018, revealed how much still needs to be done to move the US broadband market forward.

This report reviews several aspects of the cable, DSL, FttP, Wi-Fi and WiMAX broadband markets in the US. It provides market analyses as well as a range of relevant statistics in general and on the key operators.

Key developments:

Altice USA split off from parent company Altice;
Charter Communications launches 1Gb/s DOCSIS3.1 service;
Round 2 auction of the Connect America Fund completed;
Frontier acquires Verizon's wireline assets in three western states for $10.5 billion;
New York state proposal for $1 billion investment in broadband infrastructure using state and private funds;
Next Century Cities program expands to 50 cities developing affordable broadband solutions;
USDA makes available $190.5 million in loans and grants for rural broadband;
FCC rules 25Mb/s as a newly defined broadband speed, approves $2 billion to improve Wi-Fi to schools, releases Broadband Progress Report;
Report update includes telcos' operating and financial data to Q3 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Clearwire, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, MetroPCS, US Cellular, Qwest, CenturyLink, Frontier Communications, Windstream, Fairpoint, Cincinnati Bell, Comcast, Google, HughesNet, ViaSat

Introduction and statistical overview

Market analysis
Broadband statistics
Forecasts – broadband subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023

Policy and regulation framework

Network regulation overview
Broadband stimulus package
FCC’s National Broadband Plan
Private networks
Network neutrality

Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network

New technologies
Cable operators

Altice USA
Comcast Corporation
Charter Communications

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks

Introduction
Verizon
AT&T
Frontier Communications
G.fast developments

Other fixed broadband services

Wi-Fi
WiMAX
Municipal wireless broadband

Next Century Cities
Los Angeles
Other developments

State and municipal deployments
Satellite broadband
PLC

Digital -economy

E-services

E-entertainment
E-health
E-government
E-education
E-commerce

Digital media

Videostreaming
Music streaming

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List of Tables

Table 1 – Historic - Internet users and penetration – 2000 – 2009
Table 2 – Internet users and penetration – 2010 – 2018
Table 3 – Historic - Broadband subscribers and penetration – 2000 – 2009
Table 4 – Broadband subscribers and penetration – 2010 – 2018
Table 5 – Forecast broadband subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 6 – Fixed broadband subscribers by data rate – 2012 – 2016
Table 7 – Fixed broadband population coverage by data rate – 2012 – 2016
Table 8 – Top 10 cable MSOs’ subscribers – 2010; 2012 – 2018
Table 9 – US cable modem subscribers – 2000 – 2018
Table 10 – Historic - Cablevision subscriptions by service – 2011 – 2015
Table 11 – Historic - Cablevision financial data – 2011 – 2015
Table 12 – Altice USA RGUs by service – 2016 – 2018
Table 13 – Optimum RGUs by service – 2015 – 2018
Table 14 – Suddenlink RGUs by service – 2015 – 2018
Table 15 – Altice USA financial data – 2016 – 2018
Table 16 – Altice USA revenue by type – 2016 – 2018
Table 17 – Suddenlink financial data – 2016 – 2018
Table 18 – Cablevision financial data – 2016 – 2018
Table 19 – Comcast financial data – 2015 – 2018
Table 20 – Comcast revenue by service– 2012 – 2018
Table 21 – Comcast subscriptions by service – 2012 – 2018
Table 22 – Comcast bundled services subscriptions – 2014 – 2018
Table 23 – Charter Communications financial data – 2015 – 2018
Table 24 – Charter Communications residential revenue by type – 2015 – 2018
Table 25 – Charter Communications residential RGUs by type – 2015 – 2018
Table 26 – Broadband subscribers for major telco providers – 2009 – 2018
Table 27 – Verizon wireline (FiOS) operational data – 2010 – 2018
Table 28 – Verizon wireline financial data – 2014 – 2018
Table 29 – AT&T fixed-line operational data – 2011 – 2018
Table 30 – AT&T financial data – 2011 – 2018
Table 31 – Frontier Communications revenue – 2008 – 2018
Table 32 – Frontier Communications customers by sector – 2011 – 2018

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Broadband subscribers and penetration – 2005 – 2018
Chart 2 – Comcast revenue by service– 2012 – 2018
Chart 3 – Comcast subscriptions by service – 2012 – 2018
Chart 4 – Comcast bundled services subscriptions – 2014 – 2018
Chart 5 – Verizon wireline (FiOS) operational data – 2010 – 2018
Chart 6 – AT&T operational data – 2011 – 2018
Chart 7 – AT&T financial data – 2011 – 2018
Chart 8 – Frontier Communications customers by sector – 2011 – 2018

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USA - Fixed Broadband Market - Statistics and Analyses

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Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Introduction and statistical overview

Policy and regulation framework

Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks

Other fixed broadband services

Digital -economy

Digital media

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