Earthlink Announces Increased Broadband Revenue

Earthlink isn't making any money, but they're starting to do a few things right. In particular, they've seen a large increase in broadband services and phone services in the last quarter. Broadband revenues increased to $149.4 million, which was a heft 36.7 percent increase compared to Q3 of 2005, Most of the growth came from an increase in sales of business and voice services.

"EarthLink continues to deploy, expand and execute on its strategic initiatives to become a total communications provider," said Garry Betty, EarthLink president and CEO. "During the quarter, our core access once again funded our voice, data and wireless investments. We are also seeing a steady improvement in our non-access services as we reported our 13th consecutive quarter of record revenue from advertising and other value-added features."

Earthlink is yet another broadband provider who is pinning their hopes on bundling. They offer a number of packages which bundle high-speed access with business or home telephone service. This will continue to be one of their prime marketing initiatives in 2006.