Optimum (TV/Internet)

Altice One is the company’s flagship home entertainment platform. The device combines TV, streaming apps and more into one space-saving design.

Optimum TV offers cable television service in three tiers

• Core: 220+ Channels
• Select: 340+ Channels (includes Starz Encore)
• Premier: 420+ Channels (includes HBO, Showtime, and Starz)

Optimum offers internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. Currently there are four speed tiers available:

• 1 Gigabyte
• 400 mbps
• 300 mbps
• 200 mbps

The company also offers a low-cost broadband option, Altice Advantage Internet, for certain eligible customers.

Optimum offers landline VOIP telephone service branded as Optimum Voice; the service utilizes a telephone cable modem to provide the service, either alone or combined into a household's main cable modem box.

On September 5, 2019, Altice USA, entered the wireless industry with the launch of Altice Mobile, a nationwide mobile virtual network operator service. Altice Mobile delivers advanced LTE coverage by combining Altice's own fiber and mobile core infrastructure with two of the best networks in the U.S., giving consumers fast and reliable wireless coverage wherever they are. Optimum customers had the chance to lock in Altice Mobile’s limited time offer of $20/month per line with a ‘price for life’ commitment. Altice Mobile is also available to non-Optimum customers.

Optimum provides small and mid-sized businesses with internet, phone, TV, mobile, Smart WiFi and ad services.

Following Optimum being acquired by the [8] Cablevision, the brand Optimum TV[9] was used to market a more expensive offering with more channels.[2] By 2004 the name Optimum Voice was used to offer "a new phone service" based on cable-modem technology.[10] Like competing offerings from AT&T, "it stops working altogether if the power goes out."

The Optimum name was also used to offer Cable-based Internet access;[11] Optimum also pioneered in optionally bundling this with TV access, using "streaming" technology. In what was termed "digital service" Interactive Optimum was not first, but was early in steering the introduction of video-on-demand, alternate camera views for sporting events, and VCR-like rewind and replay.[8] Optimum Select was a related offering, "in which viewers could click on their remote controls to receive more information."[12] Similarly, regarding Optimum's branding and HBO Now, writes the New York Times, "Cablevision’s Internet subscribers can order the service on the company’s website, Optimum.net .., or by calling."[13]

Although references such as "Cablevision's Optimum"[14] do not include the Altice name, both names[15] reflect major market share: one study showed Optimum Voice as the eight-largest phone service provider in the U.S.[16] The name's value was used for about two years when an acquisition held June 2010 thru February 2013 was named Optimum West.[17][18]

In late 2001 Interactive Optimum (iO Digital Cable Service)[8] combined "telephone.. Internet.. entertainment" with "60 channels of digital music and 20 channels of .. topics like antique car collecting, vegetarian cooking or wedding planning." The New York Times described other cable companies in 2002 as having offered "merely a way of improving television reception." By 2004, there were 15 competitors, but the entire subscribing customer base for what others called "Interactive TV" was described as "still rare."[19] Advertising Age reported that "several high-profile ventures that had their plug pulled for troublesome economic or technological reasons."

Even so, by "playing catch-up"[20] iO and the rest of the company's offerings increased customer count from 689,000 (2004)[19] to over 3 million (2016).[21]

Altice acquired the Optimum brand name when it purchased Cablevision for $17.7 billion in June of 2016. Cablevision was combined with Suddenlink Communications to create Altice USA, the fourth largest operator in the United States.[22]