Despite an accelerated buildout schedule and subscriber gains on the fiber side, Altice USA’s overall broadband subscriber numbers trended negative again in the first quarter. Impact: Altice added 145,700 new fiber passings in Q1, which pushed its total fiber locations past the 1.3 million mark. Edge-out locations also grew, by 42,000, and Altice reported adding …
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The full rebranding by year-end of Altice USA’s Suddenlink systems to the core Optimum brand it inherited from Cablevision in 2016 offers a window into how much the broadband world has changed in the last few years. It’s not that Altice wouldn’t have eventually consolidated branding across the company. The move makes sense no matter …
Verizon’s announcement this week that it will launch a new video aggregation service called +play amounts to its current strategy on steroids. The carrier already partners with third-party streamers from Disney, AMC Networks, Sling TV, Discovery, and others to bolster its core wireless business, with the Disney bundle including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ even coming …
When Congress mandated that telecommunications providers would need to remove equipment supplied by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from their networks over national security concerns, lawmakers seem to have underestimated how much such an undertaking would cost. Impact: Congress initially allocated less than $1 billion toward the program under the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks …
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One Touch Intelligence6312 S Fiddlers Green CirGreenwood Village, CO 80111Contact: Noelle Botti – noelleb@onetouchintelligence.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Grebb to lead team covering media, communications, and entertainment/streaming GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO – Jan. 5, 2022 – One Touch Intelligence has tapped veteran journalist and business strategist Michael Grebb to manage OTI’s coverage of video, telecommunications, broadband and entertainment/streaming …
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How AT&T’s launch of HBO Max has reignited a contentious issue.
