SBC posts DSL adds at Q3 record pace.(Broadband week: advanced technologies for video, voice and data services)

Multichannel News, October, 2003 by Stump, Matt

SBC Communications Inc. produced record growth in digital subscriber line additions in the third quarter, while BellSouth Corp. posted solid numbers--both developments which will lend credence to a recent analyst report suggesting cable may want to offer a lowered-priced data tier to compete.

SBC added 365,000 DSL subscribers in the third quarter--its best quarter ever--giving the telco 3.1 million broadband subscribers. Company executives predicted continued strong growth, saying by firstquarter 2004, stone 80% of all SBC homes would be DSL-capable. "We see a lot of upside in DSL," SBC chief financial officer Randall Stephenson said. "We expect to continue to ramp up in broadband." BellSouth added 111,000 DSL subscribers, a slight...

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