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Cablevision Systems Corporation is an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City. It is the fifth-largest cable provider〔Multiple-system operator〕 and ninth-largest television provider in the United States, with most customers residing in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and parts of Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2013, the corporation also served approximately 300,000 customers in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming under the Optimum West brand until it was sold to Charter Communications in 2013. Cablevision also offers high-speed Internet connections (Optimum Online), digital cable (Optimum TV), and VoIP (Optimum Voice) phone service (the eighth-largest telephone provider in the U.S.)〔Leichtman Research Group, ("Research Notes," ) First quarter 2012, pg. 6, Cablevision (#8) with 2,357,000 residential phone lines.〕 through its Optimum brand name. As of February 2015, Cablevision also offers a WiFi-only mobile phone service dubbed Freewheel. On September 17, 2015, Netherlands-based Altice announced its intention to acquire Cablevision from the Dolan family for $17.7 billion. The deal is expected to close in 2016, pending approval from the FCC and United States federal regulators. Under the terms of the deal, Altice has offered $34.90 in cash for each share in Cablevision and a 22% premium to the company's stock price; Altice will also assume Cablevision's debt. ==Products and services== * Optimum Online * Optimum Voice is a VoIP (Voice over IP) telephone services provided by Cablevision for its Optimum Online customers. Customers must have Optimum Online first before using Optimum Voice as it uses the Internet (VoIP) for the phone session. * Optimum TV, formerly iO digital cable, is a digital cable service offered by Cablevision, available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and parts of Pennsylvania. It includes 130 HDTV channels, interactive channels, such as games, and channels that allow viewers to browse listings of autos and homes for sale in the area, and video on demand. HD channels are free with Optimum TV to customers who subscribe to the service package that includes the SD channel. Additionally, Optimum TV comes with 46 channels of Music Choice music channels. Optimum TV also offers a DVR and an HD-DVR, for an additional cost. It was the first American company to offer BBC World News (formerly BBC World). For years, Cablevision was one of the few providers not carrying BBC America until they finally added the channel on August 25, 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cablevision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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