Who is the World's Biggest Broadband Company?

Given that Asia dominates the list of 100 Fastest Internet cities and China is the most populous nation in the world, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that China is home to the largest broadband service provider in the world.

The latest data gathered by Telegeography, a research firm, shows that at the end of the first quarter of 2010, China Telecom led the top 10 broadband service providers rankings. It was followed by China Unicom. The two Chinese ISPs account for nearly 20 percent of the world's broadband subscribers. At the end of the first quarter of 2010, there were close to 492 million broadband subscribers worldwide. The rise of these two carriers also mirrors the rise of China as an Internet behemoth, pushing the U.S. into the second spot. ?The United States had four broadband ISPs in the top ten list: Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. ?Korea Telecom cracked the top 10 and edged out Telecom Italia, pushing it to the No. 11 spot. These top 10 broadband service providers in total account for roughly 39 percent of world's total broadband customers, and they collectively added about 23.3 million new subscribers between the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010.