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ISP Market Research

Top U.S. ISPs by Subscriber: Q2 2003

The second quarter saw slow growth in general but a few ISPs grew at spectacular rates, while others sold off a large number of subscribers or (in the case of AOL) deleted them as an accounting revision.

by ISP-Planet Staff
[September 8, 2003]
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We use Jupiter Research estimates for Broadwing subscriber numbers, and, more importantly, for the total number of subscribers in the United States: 75.3 million subscribers. This number does not include: subscribers at work, at universities, or in government. It only includes residential consumer accounts.

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Rank
ISP
Subs.
(millions)
Date & Source
Market
Share
1
America Online
25.3
27.5%
2
MSN
8.7
[May 12, 2003]
SEC Filing
9.4%
3
United Online
[NetZero + Juno Online]
5.2
[Aug. 1, 2003]
SEC Filing
5.6%
4
EarthLink
5.0
[July 22, 2003]
Press Release
5.5%
5
Comcast
4.4
[July 31, 2003]
Press Release
4.8%
6
SBC
2.8
[Aug. 12, 2003]
SEC Filing
3.0%
7
Verizon
1.9
[Aug. 12, 2003]
SEC Filing
2.1%
8
Cox
1.7
[June 30, 2003]
Press Release
1.8%
9
Charter
1.3
[Aug. 5, 2003]
SEC Filing
1.5%
10
BellSouth
1.2
[July 23, 2003]
Press Release
1.3%
11
Cablevision
.92
[Aug. 14, 2003]
SEC Filing
1.0%
12
Adelphia
.78
[Sept. 1, 2003]
Press Report
0.8%
13
Qwest
.56
[Sept. 3, 2003]
Presentation [.pdf]
0.6%
14
Covad
.50
[July 31, 2003]
SEC Filing

0.5%
15
RCN
.39
[Aug. 11, 2003]
Press Release
0.4%
16
ATX (includes former CoreComm and Voyager.net)
.30
[Aug. 14, 2003]
Press Release

0.3%
17
Mediacom
.23
[Aug. 13, 2003]
SEC Filing

0.3%
18
Insight BB
.18
[July 31, 2003]
Press Release

0.2%
19
Hughes DIRECWAY
.17
[Aug. 8, 2003]
SEC Filing
0.2%
20
LocalNet
.09
[Sept. 4, 2003]
Corporate Communications

0.1%
21
Internet America
.07
[Aug. 19, 2003]
Press Release

0.1%
22
Broadwing
[Jupiter Research estimate]
.07
[July 1, 2003]
Jupiter Research

0.1%
23
US Wireless Online
.03
Corporate Website
[undated]
0.0%
24
Other U.S. ISPs
30.7
 
32.9%

— End

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