Internet service providers of the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 115. Chapters: AOL, CompuServe, Free-net, Comcast, AT&T, Merit Network, Verizon Communications, MSN, Charter Communications, Prodigy, Clearwire, Qwest, EarthLink, Verizon FiOS, CenturyLink, Claro, Embarq, Optimum Online, WorldWide Access, PSINet, Cincinnati Bell, Verio, EWorld, MindSpring, Juno Online Services, Road Runner High Speed Online, UUNET, PAETEC Holding Corp., Gogo Inflight Internet, Sniperhill, Frontier Communications, StarText, MDS America, Softdisk, Cable One, The Planet Internet Services, Advanced Network and Services, McColo, ViaSat, Cogent Communications, Speakeasy, Midcontinent Communications, Covad, NetZero, Verizon High Speed Internet, Digex, Matrix Business Technologies, ClarkNet, RCN Corporation, Hurricane Electric, Armstrong Group of Companies, Etheric Networks, Hughes Communications, Ygnition, Allied Fiber, Ohio Public Library Information Network, StarBand, ATMNet, Aircell, Centracom, AT&T Worldnet, Erol's, XMission, Emery Telcom, Dreamscape Online, NorthPoint Communications, Aeneas Internet and Telephone, AGIS, Ace Communication Group, AT&T Internet Services, Comporium Communications, Skyriver, WOW!, Atala T, AtLink Services, LLC, Delphi, Wandering WiFi, Green Bay Net, PeoplePC, Texas.net, Telerama, 360networks, WiLine Networks, EPB, Click! Network, Vivato, CloseCall America, Panix, American Internet Services, Telesphere, BullsEye Telecom, GWI.net, IAsiaWorks, Sonic.net, Noank Media, GTC Wireless, Socket, Joi Internet, Sf net, Totality Corporation, Grande Communications, Epoch Networks, Cruzio, WilTel Communications, Virtual Valley, Admiral Online, Wichita Online, Martnet, The World, Troy Cablevision, Bigfoot Communications, Rainbow Broadband, Southwestern Bell Internet Services, List of broadband providers in the United States, Warped, TDS Metrocom. Excerpt: Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA and NASDAQ: CMCSK), commonly referred to as Comcast, is the largest cable operator, home internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Comcast also has significant holding in several cable networks (including E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, G4, The Golf Channel and Versus), distribution (ThePlatform), and related businesses. Comcast acquired a majority stake in media conglomerate NBC Universal in January 2011. Comcast Cable was originally formed as American Cable Systems in 1963 and was founded by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron, and Julian A. Brodsky based on a recommendation from Pete Musser, who brought the deal to Ralph Roberts to buy his first cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi. The company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the new name Comcast Corporation. The name "Comcast" is a portmanteau of the words "Communication" and "Broadcast". Over a number of years, Comcast became majority owner of Comcast Spectacor, Comcast SportsNet (in Chicago, Michigan, Philadelphia, Washington DC/Baltimore, New England, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and metro Sacramento), as well as E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, G4, The Golf Channel and Versus (formerly the Outdoor Life Network). In 2006, Comcast started a new sports channel-SportsNet New York-in the greater New York City region, in pa...