Suddenlink Communications
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2003 (as Cebridge Connections) 2006 (as Suddenlink) |
| Headquarters | St. Louis, MO |
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Key people
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Dexter Goei (Chief Executive Officer, Altice Group / Executive Chairman, Altice USA) Hakim Boubazine (Co-President and Chief Operating Officer, Altice USA) Charles F. Stewart (Co-President and Chief Financial Officer, Altice USA) |
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Digital Cable Video On Demand High-Definition TV Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) TV Caller ID Online Video (Suddenlink2GO) High-Speed Internet Wireless Home Networking (WiFi@Home) Digital Phone Security Suddenlink Media Cable Advertising Network West Virginia |
| Revenue |
 US$2.33 billion (2014) |
| Parent | Altice USA |
| Website | www.suddenlink.com |
Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a US cable broadband service provider with approximately 1.5 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 16 states including Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, Suddenlink is part of Altice N.V., a multinational telecoms company, and is being integrated into Altice USA which is the successor to Cablevision of New York City, which was acquired by Altice in 2016 and will be the fifth-largest cable provider in the United States. Suddenlink traces its origins to January 2002, when it was a part of Cequel Communications LLC. Cequel III, a separate privately owned company, which was founded by Jerry Kent, Howard Wood, and Dan Bergstein as an investment and management firm that focuses on development of cable and telecommunications companies. Cequel III maintained a contract with Suddenlink for the provision of certain management services.
In February 2003, the senior management team assumed responsibility for the American post-bankruptcy assets of Classic Communications, which served remote suburban areas, smaller towns, and rural communities. Suddenlink's parent company at the time, Cequel Communications, reported it would invest in and assume management of Classic Communications on February 12, 2003. At the time Classic was the 12th largest MSO with 325,000 customers in nine states (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, and Ohio). Classic’s customers had been largely deprived of advanced services like high-speed Internet access. The new management team claims to have invested tens of millions of dollars to upgrade Classic systems and improve the quality and quantity of services they offered.
The company was renamed Cebridge Connections and continued to acquire new cable companies and new cable systems. As Cebridge, the company acquired cable systems previously owned by Alliance, Tele-Media, Thompson, and USA Media, as well as Shaw Communications' systems in Texas. In 2006, Cebridge became Suddenlink Communications after the deals to acquire cable systems from Cox Communications and Charter Communications closed.
Between 2006 and 2007, the company constructed a national backbone unique to cable operators of Suddenlink’s size. This backbone was engineered to support inter-office voice and data communications; customer call traffic; a centralized softswitch for rapid phone deployment; and centralized video-on-demand servers and content management tools. Subsequently, this backbone aided the company's 12- to 15-month expansion of a competitive phone service to new areas. As a result, by August 2009, the company counted more than 250,000 active phone lines serving residential and business customers, up from 30,000 in early 2007.
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