Like Verizon Communications and the services it pipes over its FiOS platform, AT&T is also showing signs of slower growth for its U-verse offerings.
AT&T added 190,000 U-verse TV subs in the quarter, expanding its reach to 5.9 million, and posted a net gain of 488,000 U-verse high-speed Internet customers, extending that total to 11.5 million subs. That compared to the 233,000 U-Verse TV subs and 641,000 net U-verse Internet customers AT&T added in the year-ago quarter.
With DSL losses factored in, AT&T’s total wireline broadband sub base dropped by 55,000 in the second quarter, which the telco chalked up to typical seasonality. But 70% of all AT&T wireline broadband subs are now on U-verse, compared to 55% in the year-ago period.
About 61% of U-verse broadband subs are getting plans that deliver 12 Mbps or more, and 97% of AT&T’s video customers now take a service bundle, with two-thirds taking three or four services from the telco.
AT&T ended the period with TV penetration of about 21% and U-verse broadband penetration of more than 20%.
“U-verse has been a solid and consistent story for us,” AT&T CFO John Stephens (pictured) said on Wednesday’s earnings call, noting that U-verse now represents 62% of the company’s consumer revenues and that the ARPU for U-verse triple-play customers is north of $170 per month.
