Charter Communications ( CHTR - news - people ) and AAT Communications.

FORBES: Strategies

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.

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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.

FORBES: Adding Up Adelphia

Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company.

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Number two operator Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) has already rolled the service out in all of its top 31 divisions and has over 700, 000 DVR customers, while number four Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ) saw DVR subscriptions jump to 61, 000 from 24, 000 between the second and third quarters of this year.

FORBES: Cable Companies Dish Data