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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.
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9799/netflix-vs-cable-pay-tv-subscribers/
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 16 2017, @05:41PM (1 child)
Call it "net freedom",
That name is already taken by a bill aiming to make it legal to kick gay people off the net.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 16 2017, @08:18PM
Get with the times. Nobody cares about gay people anymore. We're all too busy being transphobes and islamophobes nowadays.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.