Almost 78M Subs

How many broadband subscribers are there? Who has most of them? Well 93% go to the top 18 ISP's which are ILEC's and MSO's, according to Benton.

"The eighteen largest cable and telephone providers of broadband services in the U.S. acquired about 635,000 net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2011, a new report from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) finds......These top broadband providers, which have about 93% of the market, now account for over 77.8 million subscribers -- with cable companies having 43.6 million broadband subscribers, and telephone companies having 34.2 million subscribers.