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America’s Top Four Cable Companies at a Glance

Whether you chose your current cable provider or your current cable provider chose you, chances are you have and will experience several different cable companies in your life time. Each one strives to offer something different while maintaining competitive content and prices. Here’s a summary of what could be considered the Fab Four of America’s cable companies.

Comcast Corporation

The nation’s largest provider of cable and internet products, Comcast serves its 24.6 million cable subscribers an impressive selection of consumer products and services.

Comcast touts the following services:

  1. On-Demand digital cable technology
  2. IP-enabled Digital Voice phone service
  3. Comcast Interactive Media (CIM)
  4. Comcast Business Class
  5. High-speed Internet
  6. High-definition television

While its major customer concentrations are in Washington, D.C., West Palm Beach, Boston, and Pittsburgh, its national footprint includes 39 states.

Time Warner Cable

Serving 15 million customers in 27 states, Time Warner Cable boasts having the most innovative cable systems in the country. With a steadfast commitment to providing the most advanced cable systems and premier customer service, Time Warner cable lists the following services:

  1. Video-On-Demand digital cable technology
  2. Digital Video Recorders (DVRs)
  3. High-speed internet
  4. Wireless home networking
  5. High-definition television
  6. Digital phone

Time Warner Cable’s service areas include New York City and Los Angeles, arguably the Media Meccas. Not surprisingly, it is a majority-owned subsidiary of the entertainment company, Time Warner, Inc.

Cox Communications

More than 6 million happy customers makes Cox Communications the third-largest cable provider in the nation. It prides itself on its proven commitment to superior customer satisfaction, and it has the awards and industry distinctions to back it up (just as J.D. Power and Associates). It also offers an impressive line of communication products:

  1. Advanced digital video
  2. Video-on-demand
  3. Digital Video Recorders
  4. High-speed internet
  5. Digital telephone over its own nationwide IP network
  6. Integrated wireless services (in partnership with Sprint)
  7. Business services, like data and video transport, and advertising

Charter Communications

The third-largest publicly-owned cable operator in the United States, Charter Communications provides digital cable television, digital phone services, and high-speed internet to almost 6 million subscribers in 28 states. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Charter Communications provides the following services:

  1. Advanced digital cable video programming
  2. Charter High-Speed internet
  3. Charter Telephone services
  4. Charter Business services
  5. Charter Media
  6. Video-On-Demand
  7. Digital Video Recorders

Charter has recently been awarded the “2007 Multi-System Operator of the Year” by CableWorld Magazine. It has also been recognized for its commitment to the development and satisfaction of its employees--which translates into better care and service to its growing number of customers.