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ISP Market Research

Subscriber Values

The ISPs whose stock prices are continuing to fall have made controversial business decisions. Motient merged with a creditor, Rare Medium, and Excite@Home wrote off over $700 million when it sold BlueMountain.com. EarthLink and GoAmerica are doing well.

by ISP-Planet Staff
[September 19, 2001]
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We list public companies only and do not include ISPs that are part of much larger firm, like MSN, for example. Current subscriber counts are derived from corporate reports and ISP-Planet's ISP Rankings.

WSRN.com is the source for market data. Market capitalization data is as of market close on September 17, 2001.

History
In response to readers' requests, we now provide historical data for the subscriber values here.

Transaction data
Third party subscriber value research from MCG Capital Corporation averages the ISPs that MCG bought and sold last year. Revenue per subscriber per month is particularly interesting data.

Note, however, that the rate of ISP deals is declining drastically.

ISP Subscriber Value:  $665

Stock Symbol

ISP

Value per subscriber

Market Cap
(millions)

Number of subscribers


[AOL]

AOL

$3,787

$134,044

35,400,000

[ELNK]

Earthlink

$372

$1,821

4,900,000

[NZRO]

NetZero

$267

$56

210,000

[PRGY]

Prodigy

$93

$307

3,300,000

[LOAX]

Log On America

$77

$3.5

30,000

[JWEB]

Juno

$34

$31

884,000

[GEEK]

Internet America

$24

$2.3

147,000

AOL subscriber numbers include RoadRunner and CompuServe.

Q1 numbers used for Internet America and Log On America.

Juno and NetZero now provide a mix of fee and free services and will merge into United Online.

Log On America is fighting a NASDAQ delisting, Internet America was delisted.

ISP subscriber values without AOL would average $144 per subscriber.

 

Cable ISP Subscriber Value:  $184

Stock Symbol

ISP

Value per subscriber

Market Cap
(millions)

Number of subscribers


[RCNC]
RCN
$379
$192
507,000

[WGAT]

WorldGate

$247

$55

104,000

[HSAC]

High Speed Access

$68

$12

176,000

[ATHM]

Excite@Home

$43

$160

3,712,000

RCN subscriber numbers include subscribers to the StarPower joint venture (a joint venture with Pepco Communications, L.L.C., a utility's subsidiary).

@Home subscriber numbers include 12,000 @work enterprises. @Home's value continues to fall as the breakup of AT&T proceeds. @Home recently sold bluemountain.com for about $35 million—it paid approximately $780 million.

High Speed Access may sell its cable modem business to Charter Communications at or near book value.

 

Mobile Wireless ISP Subscriber Value:  $276

Stock Symbol

ISP

Value per subscriber

Market Cap
(millions)

Number of subscribers


[GOAM]

GoAmerica

$527

$53

100,647

[MTNT]

Motient

$26

$6.5

250,000

Motient completed a controversial merger with a creditor, Rare Medium.

 

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