Broadband News & Trends
Largest Providers Account for 96.5 Million Broadband Subscribers, Gaining 800,000 in Q1 2018
Leichtman Research Group, Inc. conducted research that found that the largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. now represent about 95% of the market. In Q1 2018 they gained an additional 800,000 net broadband Internet subscribers. According to LRG, 96.5...
Residential Multichannel Video Subscribers Drop to 90 Million
In their recent Multichannel Subscriber Report by Kagan, they found that traditional multichannel video subscribers – cable, Telco, and DBS – fell 0.8% during Q1 2018 compared to Q4 2017. Subscriptions fell to 93.2 million, 90.3 million of which were residential...
Global Smartphone Shipments Dipped in Q1 2018 While Major Players Hit Record Market Share Levels
According to recent research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell 2% year-on-year to 345 million units in Q1 2018. Samsung regained first position with 23% global smartphone market share, and Apple grew slightly to 15% share. Huawei and Xiaomi...
Millennials Stand Out in Digital Life, but Older Generations Are Also Embracing It
According to Pew Research, roughly 92% of Millennials (those turning 22 to 37 in 2018) own a smartphone. Only 85% of Gen Xers (ages 38 to 53), 67% of Baby Boomers (those ages 54 to 72) and 30% of the Silent Generation (ages 73 to 90) own one. While Millennials top the...
Tablet Market Falls 7% in Q1 2018
According to a recent report from Strategy Analytics’ newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD) service, the tablet market declined 7% year-on-year in Q1 2018. This was despite the top vendors -- Apple, Amazon and Huawei -- all finding success. Android and...
Sports are Why Many Subscribe to Pay TV
Parks Associates recently published their OTT Video Market Tracker in which they reported that 27% of the respondents surveyed choose to keep pay TV because of sports programming. Parks Associates indicated that a primary reason may be that leagues and networks are...
