With little fanfare outside individual local markets, Suddenlink has been quietly rolling out gigabit service in recent months. A Suddenlink spokesman told Telecompetitor Friday that the company now has made service available in about two dozen markets, with plans for…
Updated later on July 15 A range of broadband providers – including Google Fiber, CenturyLink, Cox Communications, Suddenlink Communications and Vyve Broadband – have agreed to offer broadband Internet service at little or no charge to low-income people in 27…
Consolidation in the pay-TV market isn’t limited to tier 1 companies, as an announcement today from tier 2 cable operators Atlantic Broadband and MetroCast Communications illustrates. Atlantic Broadband, owned by Canada’s Cogeco Cable, said it has reached an agreement to…
Cable MSO merger and acquisition activity continues today, but from a somewhat surprising source. The latest deal includes tier 2 cable MSO Suddenlink who is being acquired by French communications conglomerate Altice for $9.2 billion. Suddenlink is the seventh largest U.S….
January 15, 2014 — WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NetCracker Technology announced today that Suddenlink Communications will implement NetCracker’s Customer Management and CRM solution to accelerate ordering and problem resolution, improve customer service efficiency, reduce training cost and effort, and minimize overall “time…
December 16, 2013 — STERLING, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted neutral provider of real-time information and analysis, today announced it was selected by Suddenlink Communications, one of the nation’s largest cable providers, to deliver a full workflow solution…
Following a growing trend among wireline and wireless broadband carriers, Suddenlink will soon institute caps for their cable modem subscribers. According to reports, the St. Louis based cable MSO will soon introduce these broadband caps in their Amarillo, Texas market,…
Through its Project Imagine, rural cable MSO Suddenlink has been upgrading its markets to faster broadband using DOCSIS 3.0 technology. The latest upgrades come to markets in Louisiana and Missouri. Some of those markets, including Bossier City (including Barksdale Air…
FRISCO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GENBAND a leading developer of IP infrastructure and application solutions, today announced that Suddenlink Communications, the seventh largest cable operator in the United States, has elected to migrate the infrastructure of recently acquired NPG Cable Inc., to GENBAND…
The video service provider answer to OTT video, also known as TV Everywhere, has pretty much been the domain of large national tier 1 providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable (TWC), and Verizon. With news of Suddenlink’s launch of Suddenlink2Go,…
St. Louis, Mo. based Cequel Communications, which does business as Suddenlink, is acquiring NPG Cable, a division of St. Joseph, Mo. based News‐Press & Gazette Co (NPG). The rural cable MSO, with approximately 1.3 million residential customers, will acquire 83,000…
Shentel, the Edinburg, Va. Based rural telco holding company, announced the acquisition of cable assets from Suddenlink. The acquisition is for cable systems serving the communities of Salem, West Virginia and Oakland, Maryland and includes 7,000 home passings. Financial terms…
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