Altice USA, Inc., commonly known as Altice, is an American cable television provider with headquarters in New York City. It delivers pay television, Internet access, telephone services, and original television content to approximately 4.9 million residential and business customers in 21 states. As a multiple-systems operator, the company operates the Optimum brand. The company also provides international news through the February 2017 U.S. launch of i24NEWS and local news through News 12 Networks. It formerly operated the Suddenlink brand. With its combined brands, Altice USA is the fourth-largest cable provider in the U.S., having customers residing in the New York City tri-state area, as well as several midwestern and southern states. 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 speed. In August 2017, the company stated it was on track to reach one million homes by the end of 2018. In June 2017, Altice USA raised US$2.2 billion in an initial public stock offering. Altice USA is based at One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens with its operational center located at Cablevision's former headquarters in Bethpage, New York. In April 2022, Altice USA announced it would be rebranding Suddenlink under the Optimum name. Products and services Optimum Online, a DOCSIS Internet service that offers speeds up to 940 Mbit/s. As of April 2020, a Fiber-to-the home service is available to more than half of its service footprint. Subscribers also get access to Optimum Wi-Fi hotspots that are located within the Altice's service area. Additionally, they may also connect to hotspots provided by Charter Spectrum, Comcast, and Cox nationwide. Optimum Voice, a Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone service Optimum TV, a digital cable service Altice Mobile, a wireless network offering unlimited text, talk, and data over a 4G LTE nationwide network; Other properties Altice Business (Built of the former Lightpath, Optimum Business, and Suddenlink Business organizations), an internet, telephone, and television service for businesses. Altice Business is currently available in 21 state and serves more than 375,000 businesses. News 12 Networks, a group of cable networks that provide news, weather, traffic and sports to cable subscribers in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area through seven individual 24-hour local news channels and five traffic and weather channels. News 12 Varsity, A high school sports network dedicated to providing live games of local varsity games. Audience Partners, a