Optimum Down 62,000 Subscribers, But Earnings Growth Returns

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2026 – Optimum Communications, formerly Altice USA, lost 62,000 net broadband subscribers in Q4, 5,000 more than it lost Q3, ultimately closing out 2025 with 4.2 million broadband subscribers.

In Optimum’s earnings call Thursday, CEO Dennis Mathew said a big reason for this was the intense and “unprecedented levels” of competition among network providers.

Optimum said they purposefully focused on earnings, knowing that the number of broadband subscribers would fall. They did this in order to prioritize their average revenue per user (ARPU).

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