In our Petition for Investigation of Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Comcast, we point out that TWC’s High-Speed Internet service has a 97 percent profit margin and a number of people asked how that statistic was derived. Simple. Time Warner Cable provides the information, (with some caveats).

Below is the actual financial information excerpted from the Time Warner Cable, 2013 SEC-filed annual report. (Please note that this same mathematics is also used by Comcast and probably Verizon and AT&T, though they do not explicitly detail their financials in this way.)

Moreover, we need to put this financial information in context to what customers are paying, and more specifically with the Time Warner Cable Triple Play bill that’s been featured in previous articles.

Follow the Money

Time Warner Cable supplies the ‘average monthly revenue per unit’ for “video” (cable TV), “high-speed data” (High-Speed Internet) and “voice” service; I.e., what customers are paying for these services to TWC. While I have no idea what ‘customer relationships’ are, we see that High-Speed Data’s (Internet) average revenue was […]