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Altice USA (also known as Optimum); AT&T Internet; Charter Communications (also known as Spectrum); Comcast High Speed Internet (also known as Xfinity); Consolidated Communications (including FairPoint Communications)
In 2019, the United States ranked 3rd in the world for the number of internet users (behind China and India), with 312.32 million users. [3] As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently. [4] The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. [5]
The for-profit ISP became a multibillion-dollar company and made an initial public offering in 1995. It was acquired by MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems, a wide-area optical-networking company), in 1996, which was subsequently acquired by Worldcom , which rose to challenge the largest telecommunications companies in America.
H2 (or History2) is a brand name owned by A&E Networks (a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Walt Disney Television division of The Walt Disney Company), used for a sister television channel of History. The brand was debuted in September 2011 when History International in the United States was relaunched as H2. The brand ...
The list is limited to dot-com companies, defined as a company that does the majority of its business on the Internet, with annual revenues exceeding US$1 billion. It excludes Internet service providers or other information technology companies. For a more general list of technology companies, see list of largest technology companies by revenue ...
With over 32 million customers in 41 states as of 2022, [5] [1] it is the largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, [6] just ahead of Comcast, and the largest pay TV operator ahead of Comcast and AT&T. [7] Charter is the fifth-largest telephone provider based on number of residential lines.
Altice USA, Inc., commonly known as Altice, is an American telecommunications provider with headquarters in New York City, owned by the Franco-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi. The company delivers pay television, Internet access , telephone services, and original television content to approximately 4.9 million residential and business ...
EarthLink logo from 1998–2015. EarthLink was founded in July 1994 by Sky Dayton when he was 23 years old. [9] Dayton was convinced of the need for a simple, user-friendly dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) after spending an entire week trying to configure his own computer for Internet access. [10]