While competing information suppliers might be grabbing the headlines with gigabit-speed rollouts, cable operators keep increasing their control of the US broadband marketplace that is enormous.

In the most recent evidence of that tendency, the ten biggest US cable operators put together netted close to 2.7 million high speed data subscribers last year, besting their increases of a year before by a strong 23%, according to new figures from the state’s 17 top broadband providers compiled by the Leichtman Research Group Inc. (LRG) . With this substantial increase, the ten large MSOs fostered their complete broadband sub count to about 52 million, giving them a controlling 59.6% share of the entire US broadband marketplace.

Furthermore, the top MSOs accounted for a whopping 89% of the broadband subscriber gains in america market this past year, up from an already remarkable 82% of the broadband sub increases in 2013, as they widened their lead by 2.3 million customers. The country ‘s seven largest telcos accounted for the remainder of broadband sub gains as they added more information customers, but found their combined market share drop farther behind the share of cable.

The seven biggest US phone companies do worse than they did while they continued to pad their broadband subscriber totals also. Continued to contend with significant losses of DSL subs. the large telcos put together picked up 345,000 data customers in 2014, down more than 25% from their choose in 2013, as

Five of the very best seven telephone suppliers registered broadband sub increases this past year, with Windstream Communications Inc. (NYSE: WIN) and FairPoint Communications Inc. both neglecting to make the grade.

Taken collectively, the 17 service providers finally have more than 87.3 million broadband customers. The