{"id":143,"date":"2009-08-19T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T08:36:00","slug":"slowing-growth-in-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Slowing growth in broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/08\/17\/broadband-cable-telcos-technology-wireless-broadband.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"Forbes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.forbes.com\/media\/assets\/forbes_logo_blue.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Forbes had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/08\/17\/broadband-cable-telcos-technology-wireless-broadband.html\">an article<\/a> earlier this week about the slowdown in growth in US broadband subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t a contraction in the market, it is a reduction in net additions. Only 634,000 new subscribers signed up in the US in the second quarter of 2009. Canada also saw smaller activation numbers. Second quarter is said to be generally slow, perhaps because of student outward migration, although the economy may be making this year especially tough.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnw.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/August2009\/18\/c5714.html\">Rogers launch<\/a> of its Ultimate 50Mbps product should heat up the back to school market.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2009\/08\/18\/rogers-internet-speed-boost.html\">CBC story<\/a> on Rogers&#8217; Ultimate launch said that Shaw and Eastlink top out at 25MBps and 15Mbps respectively. Since last February, Shaw actually has been offering the fastest broadband on the continent with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaw.ca\/en-ca\/ProductsServices\/Internet\/Nitro.htm\">Nitro<\/a> service, operating at 100Mbps and offering 400GB per month for data transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes had an article earlier this week about the slowdown in growth in US broadband subscriptions. It isn&#8217;t a contraction in the market, it is a reduction in net additions. Only 634,000 new subscribers signed up in the US in the second quarter of 2009. Canada also saw smaller activation numbers. Second quarter is said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=143\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slowing growth in broadband<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Slowing growth in broadband &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Forbes had an article earlier this week about the slowdown in growth in US broadband subscriptions.It isn&#039;t a contraction in the market, it is a reduction &#8226; August 19, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=143\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slowing growth in broadband &#8226; 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