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The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad, California November 5, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake

The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad, California November 5, 2012.

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Thu Aug 1, 2013 7:22am EDT

(Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, reported quarterly revenue below analysts' estimates as it added less than half the number of subscribers for high-speed data services that analysts had expected.

Cable operators in the United States are increasingly depending upon internet customers for growth as they continue to lose cable TV subscribers and face rising programming costs.

Time Warner Cable said on Thursday it added 21,000 high-speed internet customers on a net basis in the second quarter. Analysts had expected 55,400, according to StreetAccount.

Time Warner Cable lost about 189,000 video subscribers in the quarter, more than the 174,700 analysts had estimated.

Time Warner Cable said last week that Chief Executive Glenn Britt will step down at the end of the year and be replaced by Robert Marcus, the company's second in command.

The widely expected move comes as Time Warner Cable, which ranks second to Comcast Corp with 12 million customers, has attracted takeover interest from John Malone's Liberty Media Corp.

Malone, whose media holding company has an investment in cable provider Charter Communications Inc, recently made an offer for Time Warner Cable but it was rejected, Reuters previously reported.

Cable operators are also facing stiff competition from video services offered by satellite TV and phone companies was well as internet-based services such as Netflix Inc.

Net income attributable to the company rose to $481 million, or $1.64 per share, for the second quarter from $452 million, or $1.43 per share, a year earlier.

Excluding items, the company earned $1.69 per share.

Revenue rose about 2.7 percent to $5.55 billion.

Analysts on average had expected a profit of $1.64 per share on revenue of $5.58 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Time Warner shares closed at $114.07 on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting By Aurindom Mukherjee in Bangalore & Liana Baker in New York; Editing by Joyjeet Das)

 
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lensmanb wrote:
Now that their profit is up, lets increase the modem fees so they can make even more profit. Stinking Ferengi.

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