To: Return to Sender who wrote (19932 ) 3/4/2000 1:25:00 PM From: Maverick Respond to of 29970
ATHM added 392,700 cus in 99 using T & Rogers NW,NA MSOs add > 5K new cus/day Cable Modem Customer Count Tops 2 Million North American MSOs Now Adding More Than 5,000 New Broadband Internet Subscribers per Day cabledatacomnews.com MARCH 01, 2000 CABLE DATACOM NEWS publisher Kinetic Strategies Inc. estimates North American MSOs pushed past the 2-million mark for cable modem customers in February 2000. U.S. cable operators counted an estimated 1.5 million installed cable modem customers at the end of February and Canadian operators served 560,000. Cable modem service was available to 43 million homes in the U.S. and Canada, equal to 40 percent of all cable homes passed. Kinetic Strategies estimates North American MSOs are now adding more than 5,000 new cable modem customers per day. AT&T, Time Warner and Rogers led the industry in Q4 1999 and are maintaining momentum in the New Year. AT&T added more than 90,000 @Home customers in Q4, a single-quarter industry record for broadband Internet acquisitions, to finish the year with 207,000 cable modem subscribers. Time Warner added 75,000 Road Runner customers in Q4 to end the year ahead of its peers with 320,000 Internet subscribers. Rogers outran its Canadian colleagues by adding 60,300 subscribers in Q4 to finish 1999 with 185,700 @Home customers. [AT&T & Rogers have the highest Q4 99 subscriber growth rate at 82.2 & 48.9% respectively outpacing Time Warner at 30.6%.] CABLE MODEM CUSTOMER RANKINGS 12/31/99 Source: Kinetic Strategies, Company Reports Cable Operator Cable Modem Subscribers Q4 Sub Additions Q4 Growth Percentage Time Warner 320,000 75,000 30.6% MediaOne 220,000 47,000 27.1% AT&T 207,000 93,400 82.2% Cox 186,918 46,444 33.0% Rogers 185,700 60,300 48.9% Shaw 185,000 38,000 25.8% Comcast 141,900 29,000 25.6% Charter 65,600 17,700 36.9% Cablevision 52,100 20,626 65.5% Cogeco 52,000 10,500 25.3% Videotron 47,000 14,100 38.7% Adelphia 42,000 10,150 31.8% Other 95,000 TOTAL 1,800,218