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Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S.

posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 16 2017, @02:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the cord-cutters dept.

MrPlow writes:

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According to Leichtman Research Group, the country's largest cable TV providers, representing around 95% of the cable market, had 48.6 million subscribers at the end of March, while Netflix had 50.9 million customers on its home turf.

While cable only represents around 50 percent of the U.S. pay-TV market as a whole, it is by far the most popular way of getting pay-TV in the country. For Netflix to surpass cable is a big step in becoming the number one source of home entertainment. Interestingly, Netflix reached that goal mainly by growing its own subscriber base rather than by having people "cut the cord". Major cable providers only lost 4 million subscribers since Q1 2012 – Netflix added 27 million.

Infographic: Netflix Surpasses Major Cable Providers in the U.S. | Statista

Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9799/netflix-vs-cable-pay-tv-subscribers/

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 16 2017, @05:10PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 16 2017, @05:10PM (#526511)

    In the US, at least 18 minutes per hours is commercials, and that rises to about 21 minutes during reruns, and probably 40 minutes during Football.

    Torrents are like Netflix: soon to die after the end of Net Neutrality. You'll soon get an internet package with Unlimited Comcast/frontier/At&T data, a Gig or two of non-provider data, and the right to buy an extra package if you want to play games. There might be an unlimited Netflix optional package, but it will be priced at, or $5 below, the cableco's own VoD...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:08PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:08PM (#526542)

    Is there some particular reason why you can't use a VPN which defeats content inspection and makes all your data neutral again?

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:13PM (#526544)

      Massive blacklisting of VPNs, encrypted data running through a single pipe with enough bandwidth will get shutdown. They already do these things, without net neutrality we'll see them apply the worst possible versions of them instead of the defanged crap they pull now.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 16 2017, @06:18PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 16 2017, @06:18PM (#526546)

      IF (! (traffic_to_Verizon_server OR traffic_to_subscribed_partner_package)) THEN increment_data_against_cap;

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:57PM (#526570)

        Don't be that guy who uses a DNS VPN and routes traffic through the ISP's own DNS servers for free.