StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
If they divided up Adelphia's customer base, those rankings wouldn't change, but it would put more distance between the leaders and the other U.S. providers, such as Cox Communications and Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), each with about 6 million customers.