The phone companies continue to lose residential phone customers at an amazing rate, but are adding high-margin broadband subscribers, according to Rider Research’s latest update to its Broadband Scorecard.
The following list provides broadband subscriber numbers for the companies that have reported their financials for the December quarter.
Company Broadband Total (000)
Comcast 11,487
Deutsche Telekom 10,280
BT Wholesale 8,679
AT&T 8,529
Verizon 6,982
Time Warner Cable 6,644
Korean Telecom (KT) 6,353
BellSouth 3,632
BT Retail 3,219
NTT East (Japan) 2,879
NTT West(Japan) 2,606
Bell Canada 2,462
Qwest 2,138
EarthLink 1,886
Embarq 1,017
TeliaSonera (Sweden) 922
SingTel – Optus (Australia) 728
TeliaSonera (Finland) 412
SingTel (Singapore) 405
BSkyB 193
TeliaSonera (Norway) 172
Time Warner Cable and Comcast numbers include the subscribers they acquired from the bankrupt Adelphia.
BSkyB said that it had 259,000 broadband subscribers at the end of January 2007.
AT&T has completed its acquisition of BellSouth and BellSouth’s numbers will be included in AT&T’s in future quarters.
So far nine North American and eight Europe and Asian broadband service providers have announced their quarterly numbers.