The top 17 U.S. telcos and cable companies,...

The top 17 U.S. telcos and cable companies, with a combined 93 percent of the market, added almost 1.2 million net broadband subscribers during Q1, said Leichtman Research Group Tuesday. The 17 companies now have 85.5 million broadband subscribers, with 50.3 million at cable companies and 35.2 million at telcos, said the industry researcher. Top cable companies now have a 59 percent share of the broadband market, Leichtman said. The Q1 growth is best for that period over the past two years, but “if recent history is an indicator, however, gains will be slower over the next couple of quarters. In each of the past four years, net adds in the first quarter were greater than in the second and third quarters combined,” said firm President Bruce Leichtman in a news release (http://bit.ly/1oP9yMd).