U.S. households pay an average of $116 per month for home Internet, according to research from Parks Associates. This includes both standalone and bundled options. The study, entitled “Quantified Consumer: Fixed vs. Wireless—Consumers’ Shifting Broadband Preferences,” found that U.S. Internet…
Cord cutters in the U.S. are spending an average of $85 per month on online pay-TV or standalone subscription-based services. This is about $30 less than what they were paying for traditional pay-TV services and may involve cord cutters rebundling…
The stock market already doesn’t care whether pay-TV providers lose video customers – and they’re beginning not to care whether content providers lose those customers, either, according to financial analysts at MoffettNathanson Research. It’s no secret that pay-TV providers have…
More than 12 million households in the United States have given up their home broadband service and instead rely on mobile-only connectivity, according to research from Parks Associates. The study, “Adoption and Perception of Broadband,” says another 3 million households…
More than one quarter (27%) of U.S. cable subscribers plan to cut their subscriptions by the end of the year, according to pandemic cord cutting research from the Future of TV survey by The Trade Desk. About 15% cut the…
In five years, more than half of U.S. broadband households – 58 million homes — will not use a service from a multi video programming distributor (MVPD), according to a video cord cutter forecast from The Diffusion Group (TDG). In…
Net gains in broadband-only homes experienced a record jump during the second quarter causing the year-to-date total in 2020 for cord cutting households to more than double, according to Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Broadband-only homes are…
Video cord-cutting continues at a fast pace, with the largest pay TV providers in the U.S. losing just under 5 million subscribers in 2019, more than three times the number in 2018, according to a new report from Leichtman Research…
Regional cable and broadband operator WOW! introduced streaming TV partnerships that fully embrace cord cutting, providing more evidence of a rapidly changing video landscape. WOW! is a traditional cable operator, but like most operators, is shifting their business emphasis to…
Even the nation’s two largest cable companies have stopped worrying about video subscriber losses, observes MoffettNathanson Research in a research note this week. Like nearly all other major video providers, Comcast and Charter have seen video subscriber losses quarter after…
Broadband subscribers are on pace to use a median of more than 250GB of data per month this year, according to a broadband data usage forecast from OpenVault. The basis of the prediction stems from the correlation between broadband consumption…
There are about 500K PlayStation Vue subscribers up for grabs, as Sony shut down the once pioneering streaming TV service yesterday. Sling and others are pursuing these streaming subscribers and Sling enlisted an old, yet very familiar brand to do…
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