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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)
It was founded in March 1999 when AT&T acquired the assets of TCI and renamed it to AT&T Broadband. The next year, AT&T Broadband had acquired MediaOne as well and became the largest cable operations company in the United States. [1] In 2001, AT&T swapped the cable systems to Cable One in the San Joaquin Valley region of California, eastern ...
AT&T Internet is an AT&T brand of broadband internet service. Previously, AT&T Internet was branded as U-verse Internet and bundled with U-verse TV, which was spun off into the newly independent DirecTV in 2021. AT&T Internet plans powered by fiber-optic cable use the AT&T Fiber brand.
Xfinity Voice (formerly Comcast Digital Voice) is a Voice Over IP cable telephony service that was launched in 2005 in some markets, [75] and to all of Comcast's markets in 2006. Comcast's older service, Comcast Digital Phone, continued to offer service for a brief period, until Comcast shut it down around in late 2007. [ 76 ]
DSLReports a (see "Online Status" [6]) North American-oriented broadband information and review site based in New York City. [7] The site's main focus is on internet, phone, cable TV, fiber optics, and wireless services in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries (United Kingdom and Australia).
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 early stages of Fios began when Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications) was testing its video service "Stargazer" in 1995. This was the first commercial video on demand (VOD) service, which was tested for 1,000 homes in Northern Virginia. [1] During this time there were talks of developing a fiber optic-based service.
It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington, United States. [5] [6] The service measures the data throughput (speed) and latency (connection delay) of an Internet connection against one of over 16,000 geographically dispersed servers (as of December 2023). [7]