Based on Strategy Analytics, that is compared to a decline of DSL’s market share to only 15% of all US subscriptions and a 23% market share of 23%. The truth is, the study found that there is now households with conventional telephone connections than fewer customers with DSL connections.

As the country’s biggest phone companies prioritize wireless connections those users are moving to cable.
Blackwell added that “the cable operators are driving the increase with increased rates and multiplay packages. During 2015, Comcast accounted for 44% of the firms and new subscribers forming the New Charter made another 47% of new subscribers up. We expect to see, although the Telco operators haven’t been able to shake off the losses of DSL subscribers increased fiber deployments in the forthcoming quarters, which ought to help AT&T and Verizon yield to increase.”

Do not count on that. Outside of Boston Verizon’s FiOS growths are immobilized, and as we have repeatedly noted, AT&T’s fiber growth strategies have been made to appear significantly bigger than they really are, courtesy of something we call “fiber to the press release.”

Cable will remain, and is, the dominant broadband connectivity choice in the States for years to come. That is in large part thanks to phone companies unable or reluctant to update aging DSL lines to present generation speed standards, efficiently giving cable an increasing monopoly over fixed line broadband. Studies earlier this year found that because of this, cable broadband ISPs have 99% of all fixed line broadband add-ons during the first quarter of this year.