Broadband providers[edit]
Main article: List of broadband providers in the United States
The broadband Internet access providers in the United States with more than one million subscribers at the end of Q3 2014 were:
Company Subscriptions Services Comcast 21,586,000[23] Cable Internet access at speeds up to 105 Mbit/s.[24] But may maxed out with its maximum plan (Extreme 505, speeds at over 505 Mbit/s).[25] AT&T 16,486,000[23] DSL access at speeds up to 6 Mbit/s and hybrid DSL/fiber access (U-Verse) at speeds up to 45 Mbit/s. Fiber access available at up to 1 Gbit/s[26] Time Warner 12,073,000[23] Cable Internet access at speeds up to 300 Mbit/s.[27] Verizon 9,146,000[23] DSL access at speeds of 0.5 to 15 Mbit/s and fiber access (FiOS) at speeds of 15 to 500 Mbit/s.[28][29] CenturyLink 6,063,000[23] DSL and fiber access at speeds up to 40 Mbit/s.[30] Charter 4,956,000[23] Cable Internet access at speeds up to 100 Mbit/s.[31] Cox 4,300,000[32] Cable Internet access at speeds of 5 to 150 Mbit/s.[33] Cablevision 2,756,000[23] Cable Internet access at speeds up to 101 Mbit/s.[34] Frontier 1,922,000[23] DSL access at speeds from 6 to 12 Mbit/s.[35] Fiber access with speeds up to 10 Gbit/s.[36] Windstream 1,142,000[23] DSL access at speeds from 3 to 12 Mbit/s. Also offers fiber, Metro Ethernet & T1 speeds, up to 1 Gbit/s.[37]
In 2010 four of these companies ranked among the ten largest ISPs in the world in terms of subscribers: Comcast (4th), AT&T (5th), Time Warner (7th), and Verizon (8th).[38]
Google Fiber, offering 1 Gbit/s connection speeds, is available in the Kansas City metropolitan area in both Missouri and Kansas[39] with plans to expand into Austin, Texas[40] and Provo, Utah.[41]
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