Altice USA
altice USA is an American cable television provider/multiple system operator with headquarters in New York City, with broadband, pay television, telephone services, Wi-Fi hotspot access, proprietary content and advertising services to approximately 4.9 million residential and business customers in 21 states.The company operates under the Optimum and Suddenlink brands which it plans to rebrand under the Altice name by the end of the second quarter 2018. The company also provides international news through the February 2017 U.S. launch of i24NEWS and local news through News 12 Networks .
Type Public
Traded as NYSE: ATUS
Industry Telecommunications
Mass media
Predecessor Cablevision
Founded June 21, 2016; 2 years ago
Headquarters Long Island City, NY, United States
Key people Dexter Goei
(Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)
Charles F. Stewart
(Co-President and Chief Financial Officer)
Hakim Boubazine
(Co-President and Chief Operating Officer)
Products Cable
(Internet)
(VoIP Phone)
(Business)
Brands Optimum by Altice, Optimum TV (Television)
Optimum Online (Internet)
Optimum Voice (VoIP Phone)
Lightpath (Business)
News 12
News 12 Varsity
Subsidiaries Newsday, LLC : 25%
Suddenlink Communications
Website www.alticeusa.com
www.optimum.com
With its combined brands Altice USA is the fourth-largest cable provider in the U.S., with its customers residing in the New York City tri-state area, as well as a number of midwestern and southern states.
In June 2017, Altice USA went public, raising $2.2 billion in its initial public offering.Altice USA remains based at Cablevision 's former headquarters in Bethpage, New York , which will become the operational center for the company when its main headquarters is moved to One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens.
In November 2016, Altice USA announced a five-year plan for fiber-to-the-home to build a network capable of delivering 10 Gbit/s broadband speeds. In August 2017, the company stated it was on track to reach one million homes by the end of 2018.
AT&T
AT&T Internet Services (previously
SBC Internet Services) is a trade name for several affiliated companies. AT&T Internet Services provides the att.net consumer web portal and information service.
AT&T Internet Services
Type of site Web Portal
Owner AT&T
Created by AT&T Corporation
Website att.net
Alexa rank 1,105 (February 2013) [1]
Launched 1996; 22 years ago
Current status merged
CenturyLink
CenturyLink, Inc. is an American
telecommunications company , headquartered in Monroe , Louisiana , that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon It also provides long distance service.
Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications Corporation is a telecommunications company in the United States . It was known as
Citizens Utilities Company until May 2000 and Citizens Communications Company until July 31, 2008. The company previously served primarily rural areas and smaller communities, but now also serves several large metropolitan markets
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ : FTR
S&P 600 component
Industry Telecommunications
Predecessor Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation
Founded 1935
Headquarters Norwalk, Connecticut , United States
Key people Dan McCarthy, President and CEO
Services Local and long-distance telephone service, Internet access,
wireless Internet access, digital phone, DISH satellite TV,
fiber-optic Internet, fiber-optic television
Revenue US$4,761.576 million (2013)
US$5,011.853 million (2012)
Operating income US$980.721 million (2013)
US$987.168 million (2012)
Net income US$112.835 million (2013)
US$136.636 million (2012)
Total assets US$16,635.484 million (2013)
US$17,733.631 million (2012)
Total equity US$4,055.481 million (2013)
US$4,119.271 million (2012)
Number of employees 28,000
History
Originally based in Minneapolis, Citizens Utilities Company was formed from remnants of Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation in 1935. As the post- war years started, the company caught the interest of a New York investors. 30-year-old Richard Rosenthal was named president of the company in 1946, the youngest company president in the industry at that time. From the 1950s through the 1970s the company expanded nationwide.
Mediacom
Mediacom Communications Corporation is a cable television and communications provider in the
United States . Founded in 1995 by
Rocco B. Commisso, it serves primarily smaller markets in the
Midwest and Southern United States . Formerly a publicly traded firm, it went private in a $600 million transaction in March 2011 and is, as of 2011, owned by Commisso.
Type Private
Traded as NASDAQ : MCCC
Industry Telecommunications
Founded July 1995; 23 years ago
Founder Rocco B. Commisso
Headquarters Blooming Grove, New York
Area served Primarily Midwest ,
Southeastern United States
Key people Rocco B. Commisso
( Chairman , CEO , majority shareholder) [1]
Products Cable television,
Broadband Internet access, Cable telephony
Revenue $ 1.460 billion (2009) :37
Operating income $299.761 million (2009) [1] :37
Net income $744.067 million (2009) [1] :37
Total assess $3.977 billion (2009) [1] :37
Total equity $268.028 million (2009) [1] :37
Owner Rocco B. Commisso
Number of employees 4,500 (2009)
Windstream Holdings
Windstream Holdings, Inc. , also doing business as Windstream Communications or Windstream , is a provider of voice and data network communications (broadband , VoIP,
MPLS), and managed services ( virtual servers , managed firewall, data storage, cloud-based voice, etc.), to businesses in the United States. The company also offers residential broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers within its coverage area. It is the ninth largest residential telephone provider in the country with service covering more than 8.1 million people in 21 states. Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Windstream has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index.
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ : WIN
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 2006; 12 years ago
Headquarters Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Key people Tony Thomas - President & CEO
Products Advanced Network Communications, including Cloud
Computing and Managed Services to businesses
nationwide. Broadband, Phone and Digital TV to
consumers primarily in rural areas.
Revenue US$ 5,988.1 million (2013)
US$ 6,139.5 million (2012)
Operating income US$ 1,009.0 million (2013)
US$ 883.9 million (2012)
Net income US$ 241.0 million (2013)
US$ 168.0 million (2012)
Total assess US$ 13,444.6 million (2013)
US$ 13,982.0 million (2012)
Total equity US$ 840.2 million (2013)
US$ 1,104.8 million (2012)
Number of employees 14,500
Website www.windstream.com
The company was formed in 2006, when Alltel 's local telephone service merged with Valor Communications Group out of part of GTE (now part of
Verizon 's) local telephone business in the Southwestern United States.
Windstream is a partner with Dish Network, offering satellite service to its customers.
History
Valor Telecom was formed in 2000 to take over GTE Southwest assets that
Verizon was selling following its acquisition of GTE.
The company went public in 2005, under the name Valor Communications Group, Inc.
TDS Telecom
TDS Telecom is an American
telecommunications company with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin . It is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Telephone and Data Systems Inc, and is the seventh-largest local exchange carrier in the U.S. TDS Telecom offers telephone , broadband Internet and television services to customers in more than a hundred rural and suburban communities, though it also serves some urban metropolitan communities. It also sells businesses communications services including VoIP (managed IP hosted) phone service, dedicated broadband Internet and hosted-managed services. With headquarters in Madison, TDS Telecom operates
OneNeck IT Solutions , TDS Baja Broadband LLC, and BendBroadband. Combined, the company employs nearly 3,300 people.
Type Subsidiary
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1969
Headquarters Madison, Wisconsin , United States
Parent Telephone and Data Systems
Website tdstelecom.com
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