A handful of analysts decided to state the obvious this week by highlighting the deceleration of cord cutting in the US from Q4 2017 to Q1 2018 – brushing over the aggressively accelerated 3.3 million pay TV subscribers lost in 2017. It’s true we live in a US-centric industry, making it easy to forget cord cutting is most definitely accelerating in the broader industry, according to new research from IHS, highlighting 13 countries in particular hit hardest last year. What’s most surprising is while US pay TV operators have managed to offset subscriber declines by various means to rescue revenues, other markets ravaged by cord cutting have been much more successful in doing so. Venezuela is the standout country, losing…