U.S. Q1: Cable fine, Verizon and AT&T go negative
Cable added 1,000,000 DSL/telco fiber 10,000. The data below are from Bruce Leichtman, who has been consistently accurate. The trend to cable is clear in the 50M homes that are still running DSL versions that are ten years out of date. AT&T & Verizon are doing fine in U-Verse and FiOS territory but are getting clobbered elsewhere.
DSL beats cable in Canada, France, and England. The U.S. policy types who say a cable monopoly is almost inevitable are uninformed. AT&T & Verizon have decided to go wireless-only across about 25% of their homes. They virtually stopped investment in those areas and have been very open with Wall Street about their plans. The wireline business is profitable in those areas but wireless-only makes more money. Or so they expect.
China Mobile added 2.65M new wired subscribers in March.