List of multiple-system operators

A multiple-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems. A cable system in the United States, by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) definition, is a facility serving a single community or a distinct governmental entity, each of which has its own franchise agreement with the cable company. Though in the strictest sense any cable company that serves multiple communities is an MSO, the term today is usually reserved for companies that own multiple cable systems, such as Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, and Videotron in Canada; Altice USA, Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox Communications in the United States; or Virgin Media in the UK.

Top multichannel video service providers in the United States by number of subscribers

• Contains estimates from SNL Kagan.[1]

Rank	MSO name	Brand	Total subscribers	Technology
1	Comcast	Xfinity	22,400,000[2]	Cable
2	AT&T	DirecTV and AT&T TV	18,410,000[2]	Satellite/VDSL
3	Charter Communications	Spectrum	15,650,000[2]	Cable
4	Dish Network	Dish and Sling TV	11,270,000[2]	Satellite/VDSL
5	Cox Communications	Contour	4,132,000[3]	Cable
6	Verizon	Fios	3,990,000[2]	Fiber
7	Altice USA	Optimum, Suddenlink, Altice Business[2]	3,100,000[2]	Cable
8	Frontier Communications	Frontier FiOS and Vantage TV	961,000[4]	Fiber
9	Mediacom	Xtream[5]	829,000[6]	Cable
10	Cable One	Sparklight[7]	818,330 [8]	Cable
11	TPG	(Including RCN, Grande and Wave Broadband)[9]	529,975[10]	Cable
12	WOW!	WOW! TV and WOW! Ultra[11]	518,500[12]	Cable
13	Atlantic Broadband	(includes Metrocast)	410,921[13]	Cable
14	Windstream	Kinetic	359,000[14]	IPTV
15	Lumen (formerly CenturyLink)	Prism TV	325,000[15]	Cable
16	Midco		300,000+[16]	Cable
17	Armstrong Cable Services		234,573	Cable
18	Service Electric Cable TV Incorporated		213,058	Cable
19	Blue Ridge Communications		164,796	Cable
20	TDS Telecom	TDS TV	145,400[17]	Cable
21	General Communications		140,000	Cable
22	Cincinnati Bell		137,600[18]	Cable
23	Buckeye Broadband		130,954	Cable
24	Consolidated Communications	Digital Video Services (DVS)	117,882[19]	IPTV
25	Google Fiber		68,715[20]	Fiber
26	Hawaiian Telcom		32,000[21]	IPTV

Top multichannel video service providers outside of US, by number of subscribers

Country	MSO name	# of subscribers
Europe	Comcast (Sky)	24,000,000
India	DEN Network	23,000,000
India	InCablenet	22,500,000
India	Hathway Cable	22,500,000
China	Shandong Cable Network	18,000,000[22]
China	Guangdong Cable Network	13,000,000[23]
India	Siti Cable	10,525,000
Mainland Europe (7 countries)	UPC Broadband[24]	9,100,000
China	Beijing Gehua	5,840,000[25]
Germany	Vodafone Deutschland[26]	8,900,000
China	Shanghai Oriental Cable Net	6,700,000[27]
Brazil	Claro	5,381,000
United Kingdom & Ireland	Virgin Media	4,772,800
France	Altice France (SFR)[28]	3,500,000
South Korea	CJ Hellovision[29]	3,300,000
Japan	J:Com	3,300,000
South Korea	T-Broad[30]	3,200,000
Netherlands	Ziggo[31]	3,017,000
South Korea	C&M	2,700,000
India	Asianet Broadband	2,500,000[32]
Belgium	Telenet	2,300,000
Germany	Kabel BW	2,300,000
Canada	Rogers Cable	2,295,000
Canada	Shaw Communications	2,241,503
Spain	Vodafone Spain[33]	1,823,536
Sweden	Com Hem	1,760,000
Switzerland	Cablecom[34]	1,670,000
Canada	Videotron	1,652,200
India	Kerala Vision	1,500,000[35]
Portugal	NOS[36]	1,467,000
United Kingdom	BT	1,400,000
Portugal	Altice Portugal (MEO)[36]	1,387,000
Denmark	YouSee A/S	1,200,000
Taiwan	Kbro	1,150,000
Taiwan	CNS	1,100,000
Canada	Shaw Direct	886,106
Canada	Cogeco	859,090
Australia	Austar	742,000
Poland	Vectra S.A.	740,000
Taiwan	TBC	700,000
Taiwan	TFN media	550,000
India	APSFL	500,000
Canada	Eastlink	457,075
Spain	Euskaltel	400,000

See also

• List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions
• List of countries by number of Internet users
• List of countries by number of telephone lines in use
• List of countries by smartphone penetration
• List of mobile network operators
• List of telephone operating companies
• Multichannel television in the United States

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