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We skipped publishing on the implications of up to $12BN in new contracts for Lumen and others because we didn’t officially cover Lumen when the news broke, and we assumed others would get to the right insights before us (and we had our hands full with results for the companies we do cover).
In this installment of our Autumn for Broadband series, we provide a quick update on trends in the broadband market based on what we have seen from the companies that have reported so far. Industry net adds were down substantially from a year ago, but trends have leveled off sequentially and they look to remain stable in 3Q24 (adjusting for one-time ACP impacts). We continue to expect growth to recover once the ACP headwind has passed.
In this note we cover the implications of the big contract wins announced last week as well as our thoughts on improving trends in Mass Markets and the value that Lumen is creating in that business. Lumen’s Mass Markets business has gone from consistently disappointing to one of the better performing assets in the group. The results they are delivering are very supportive of our positive view of broadband assets generally.
Broadband industry growth has slowed over the last couple of quarters. For 2Q24, we expect reported broadband net adds below last year and pre-pandemic levels. We estimate that after adjusting for the one-time impact of ACP related disconnects, net adds were still below last year but were in-line with pre-pandemic levels. We think consensus expectations for the quarter are a little too negative, especially for Cable, and we expect reported adds to be slightly better than expectations.
We have now updated the broadband NPS data from our 1Q24 broadband trends report for the months of May and June. Most Cable and Fiber operators have shown an improvement in NPS over the last 3 months. FWA NPS worsened slightly closing the gap between itself and other technologies. The worsening of FWA’s NPS was driven by Verizon FWA’s NPS which continued to worsen with lower scores across all drivers.
We created a model to better understand the economics of Gigapower for both AT&T and Blackrock. Please use the model and give us your thoughts. The model clarifies the value of broadband assets generally. It also clarifies why we are likely to see similar JVs from Frontier, Lumen, and others. We will adapt this model for those instances in due course.
In this installment of our Autumn for Broadband series, we provide a quick update on trends in the broadband market based on what we have seen from the companies that have reported so far. Industry net adds were substantially weaker in 1Q24 with all technologies seeing slower growth (except DSL which was flat). Cable was impacted the most.
Broadband industry growth slowed in 4Q23. We wondered, exiting the quarter, whether growth would level off or slow further in 1Q24. Based on the data we have collected so far, it appears that growth has slowed further, and possibly quite materially. We suspect slower growth will impact all operators, although for fiber, it should be partly offset by footprint expansion.
Moody's Ratings (Moody's) appended a limited default (LD) designation to Lumen Technologies, Inc.'s (Lumen) Probability of Default Rating (PDR), changing it to Caa2-PD/LD from Caa2-PD, following the completion of its previously announced amended and restated transaction support agreement (TSA). On...
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