WideOpenWest, Inc.

WideOpenWest, Inc. (WOW!) is a U.S. broadband provider headquartered at 7887 East Belleview Avenue, Englewood, Colorado. The business traces to 1996; the current Delaware entity was formerly WideOpenWest Kite, Inc. and took the WideOpenWest, Inc. name in March 2017. It was publicly traded on the NYSE under "WOW" until a take-private by DigitalBridge Group and Crestview Partners, announced August 2025 at $1.5 billion enterprise value ($5.20 per share) and closed December 31, 2025; it is now private and PE-backed. Public filings put headcount around 1,320 and FY2024 total revenue at $630.9 million with a $58.8 million net loss.

Operations. WOW! sells high-speed data (up to 1.2 Gbps across most of its footprint, 5 Gbps in greenfield fiber markets), cable video, and digital telephony to residential customers, plus business data/voice, fiber, office-to-office metro Ethernet, SIP trunking, and cloud/managed services. Its hybrid fiber-coax and FTTH networks passed roughly 2.0 million homes and businesses and served about 478,700 customers (Dec. 31, 2024), across suburban markets in Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It is an operating company, not an NPE.

Litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, as defendant and zero as plaintiff — the profile of a service provider being targeted rather than an assertion-driven licensor. The sole tracked suit, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. WideOpenWest, Inc., sits in the District of Colorado before Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix. Cedar Lane is a Canadian entity founded in 2019 that asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity; its campaigns typically file in W.D. Tex. or D. Del., so this Colorado filing is off its usual venue pattern.

Context. WOW! has previously absorbed patent-litigation costs outside this dataset, most notably a 2018 Sprint VoIP suit settled in 2023 for $48 million. No revenue credits or claims about case merits are implied here.