$17.7 billion and completed the deal on June 21, 2016. After both deals were completed Altice USA became the fourth largest cable operator in the country with 4.6 million subscribers and the sixth largest pay television operator with 3.50 million subscribers. Altice USA announced on April 11, 2017 the company has filed for an initial public offering. The company plans to raise up to $100 million with the IPO. Altice NV the parent company of Altice USA announced on May 24, 2017 that "all consumer-facing brands across the globe will change." Altice stated the re-branding would be complete by the second quarter in 2018. In April 2022, Altice USA announced that Suddenlink would be rebranded under the Optimum name. On August 1, Suddenlink was fully amalgamated into Optimum. Markets At time of merger with Optimum, Suddenlink operated services in twelve states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia. Carriage disputes Suddenlink has been involved with two high-profile carriage disputes over the years. The first was with Sinclair Broadcasting Group over two local stations it operates in the Huntington-Charleston, West Virginia designated market area. The dispute became public on June 30, 2006, and was resolved on August 8, 2006. The second involved Viacom and its cable channels Nickelodeon, MTV, Spike, TV Land, VH1, and various spin-off channels. Sinclair Broadcasting Group After Suddenlink completed its acquisition of cable systems from Charter Communications in 2006, the company entered into a public carriage dispute with Sinclair Broadcasting Group over two local television stations in the region. Sinclair owns and operates WCHS-TV - the local ABC affiliate in the Huntington-Charleston, West Virginia DMA. Sinclair also operates the local Fox affiliate WVAH-TV, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated through a local marketing agreement by Sinclair. The dispute impacted a total of 240,000 Suddenlink subscribers, 200,000 of which were included in the Huntington-Charleston DMA proper. The dispute also impacted 40,000 subscribers in the nearby Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill and Parkersburg DMAs where Charter imported the signals of WCHS and WVAH because Beckley did not have a Fox affiliate and Parkersburg lacked an ABC affiliate at the time. The agreement between Charter and Sinclair had expired prior to Suddenlink's acquisition. Both parties began negotiations in May 2006 before the acquisition was completed. Sinclair announced on June 30, 2006 that it was unable to reach an agreement with Suddenlink. Sinclair argued that Suddenlink's