{"id":420015,"date":"2010-03-12T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=105333"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:38:39","slug":"in-2009-u-s-broadband-growth-slowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420015","title":{"rendered":"In 2009, U.S. Broadband Growth Slowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4.1 million new subscribers signed up for broadband from the 19 largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. in 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leichtmanresearch.com\/press\/031210release.html\">according to Durham, N.H.-based Leichtman Research Group.<\/a> These 19 service providers account for about 93 percent (about 71.8 million subscribers) of the total U.S. market. Annual net broadband additions in 2009 were 75 percent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/03\/06\/in-2008-broadband-growth-slowed\/\">2008 total, when these same carriers added about 5.4 million subscribers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are excerpts from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top cable companies netted 57 percent of the broadband additions in 2009 and added 2.3  million broadband subscribers.<\/li>\n<li>The top telephone providers added over 1.7 million broadband subscribers.<\/li>\n<li>In the fourth quarter of 2009, cable and telephone providers added 890,000 broadband subscribers -\u2013 with cable companies adding about 580,000 subscribers and phone companies adding about 310,000 subscribers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/broadbandgrowth-in-2009.gif?w=614&#038;h=488\" alt=\"broadbandgrowth in 2009.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"614\" height=\"488\"  class=\" alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=105333&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=zDuZ8Qpm06Q:VDOJQzG6Ch0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/zDuZ8Qpm06Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4.1 million new subscribers signed up for broadband from the 19 largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. in 2009, according to Durham, N.H.-based Leichtman Research Group. These 19 service providers account for about 93 percent (about 71.8 million subscribers) of the total U.S. market. Annual net broadband additions in 2009 were 75 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}