Telecommunications Service Provider Subscriber Growth 2007-2012

This report enumerates the subscriber base and estimates subscriber growth in five classes of telecommunication services providers through a quantitative analysis of the major players in each of the following market segments: wireless carriers, CLECs, dominant incumbent carriers, regional incumbent carriers, and cable providers. In addition to enumerating subscriber totals, both by the number of subscribers and by percentage of subscribers held by each class of service provider, the report discusses the impacts that data services will have on wireless growth, the adoption of Telco-TV on the wireline carriers, and how continuing competition between wireline carriers and cable operators is being played out in the plant upgrades. This study’s main thesis is that the future of any segment is highly dependant upon the actions taken by the competitive service providers

The purpose of this report is to quantify the number of subscribers by carrier for various telecommunications and media services. This report contains a section on each of the following categories: