Top Ten Internet Providers in the United States

Comcast provides Cable and Internet and is the largest cable provider in the U.S, with over 25 million Internet customers. Comcast also owns NBC/Universal.

Cable and Internet provider, Charter Communications recently bought Time Warner Cable and BrightHouse to take them to number two in Cable Internet. They have almost 24 million Internet customers

AT&T provides DSL and dial-up, and fiber optic Internet connections with its U-Verse service, with almost 16 million customers. AT&T also owns DirecTV satellite TV service. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Studios at this time. The US Department of Just is suing to prevent this from happening.

Verizon services almost 7  million Internet customers. They are one of the descendentsof Bell Telephone. The were formed as a result of the merging of GTE and some of the Baby Bell companies.

CenturyLink, with over 5 million subscribers using their Internet services brings them to number five. Services they provide include CenturyLink DSL and fiber optic video services. They are the third largest landline company.

Cable and Internet company, Cox Communications is a family owned cable company that provides High Speed Internet to almost 5 million customers. They started out as a cable company and now also provide Internet. The parent company, Cox Enterprises also owns Kelly Bluebook, Autotrader.com and Valpak.

Altice USA is the United States arm of Netherlands based Altice. Altice USA provides cable Internet to a subscriber base of more than 4 million. It is a combination of Suddenlink and Cablevision. Altice operates under the Suddenlink and Optimum brands.

Frontier provides Internet and phone access to people in rural areas with not quite 4 million customers accessing the Internet through Frontier. They are the fourth largest DSL provider and the eighth largest Internet provider overall. They bought a large number of Fios customers from Verizon.

Mediacom provides Internet and video to a bit more than 1.2 million subscribers. It is a private company owned and founded by Rocco Commisso. It serves mostly the South and the Midwest.

TDS Telecom has a little less than 1.2 million Internet customers, mostly in rural areas. TDS owns a bunch of small rural and suburban telephone companies across the United States, from Maine to California and Washington State to Florida.

Windstream has a little over 1 million customers with their recent purchase of Earthlink. Earthlink was an early leader in dial up Internet service. Windstream provides phone and Internet and was formed in 2006 as a result of the merger of Alltel's landlines with Valor Communications Group.