Altice USA, Inc.

Altice USA, Inc. — now Optimum Communications, Inc. (renamed November 19, 2025; NYSE ticker changed from ATUS to OPTU) — is a U.S. cable/broadband operator headquartered at One Court Square, Long Island City, New York. It was incorporated in 2015 and went public on the NYSE in June 2017. It is publicly traded but controlled by founder Patrick Drahi through Next Alt S.à r.l. / Next Private B.V.; it is a separate company from Altice Europe. Reported headcount is roughly 9,500–10,600 employees, with revenue of about $8.6 billion (FY2025) down from roughly $9.2 billion (FY2023) per its 10-K.

Operations. Altice USA/Optimum delivers broadband, video, telephony and mobile services to roughly 4.3 million residential and business customers across 21 states, primarily the New York metro area and south-central U.S. Its footprint uses a hybrid fiber-coaxial network plus a fiber-to-the-home build (about 10.0 million passings; ~3.1 million FTTH passings in 2025). Service lines include Optimum-branded broadband, video and voice; Optimum Mobile; enterprise-grade fiber connectivity and managed services via Lightpath; local news programming via News 12; and local/advanced advertising. It is an operating telecommunications company, not a patent-holding entity.

Litigation posture. The tracked data shows one case, with Altice USA as defendant and zero as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company defending against a patent assertion rather than asserting patents itself. The sole matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Altice USA, Inc., filed April 12, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Cedar Lane Technologies is widely characterized in industry sources (e.g., Unified Patents/RPX coverage) as a patent assertion entity that files large volumes of infringement suits against operating technology and service companies. The case was filed in D. Del., not the Eastern District of Texas.

Context. The suit reflects the commonplace pattern of a mass-filing NPE targeting a large connectivity/broadband provider over consumer-facing technology. No acquisitions or parent funding sources specific to the litigation are reflected in the tracked data. Beyond this single matter, no other patent suits involving the company appear in the dataset.