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Top 25 MSOs

As of March 2006

Rank MSO Subscribers
1  

Comcast Cable Communications

21,657,000

2  

Time Warner Cable

11,057,000

3  

Charter Communications

5,876,100

4  

Cox Communications (e)

5,407,000

5  

Adelphia Communications 1*

4,840,000

6  

Cablevision Systems

3,101,000

7  

Bright House Networks (e)

2,280,000

8  

Mediacom LLC

1,400,000

9  

Insight Communications

1,302,400

10  

Suddenlink Communications 2 (e)

1,275,300

11  

CableOne

686,500

12  

RCN Corp. 3

369,000

13  

WideOpenWest (e)

360,900

14  

Bresnan Communications (e)

293,200

15  

Service Electric (e)

287,500

16  

Atlantic Broadband

263,700

17  

Armstrong Group of Cos.

229,600

18  

Midcontinent Communications

195,200

19  

Pencor Services (e)

183,500

20  

Knology Holdings

177,400

21  

Millennium Digital Media (e)

157,700

22  

Northland Communications Corporation

146,900

23  

Buckeye CableSystem

145,900

24  

General Communication

139,900

25  

MidOcean Ptnrs. & Crestview Ptnrs. (e)

138,800

Source:  Kagan Research, LLC.  All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. (data released September 2006)
Notes: Unless otherwise noted, counts include owned and managed subscribers. Counts include recent sale or acquisition.
(e) = Estimate
& = Counts include recent sale or acquisition.
1 = Excludes customers in Brazil.
2 = Formerly listed as Cebridge Connection. Subs pro forma acquisition of Eagle Comm. systems.
3 = Includes commercials customers. 
* = Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Comcast completed the acquisition of Adelphia Communications' assets on July 30, 2006.  As a result of the transaction, which included swaps between TWC and Comcast, TWC gained approximately 3.3 million basic subscribers and Comcast added about 1.7 million basic subscribers.

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