Altice USA has launched Altice Mobile, a new nationwide mobile service, operating in areas where Altice operates cable TV networks, including Long Island, New York suburbs in New Jersey and Connecticut, portions of West Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Idaho.
Altice Mobile “offers one simple plan with unlimited everything,” including mobile data, testing and voice, unlimited mobile hotspot usage (throttled to 700 kbps, however) and unlimited international text and talk from the U.S. to more than 35 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Israel, most of Europe.
Unlimited data, text and talk also is available while Altice Mobile customers are traveling abroad in those same countries.
The service uses both the Sprint and AT&T networks, which might offer advantages for some customers, at some times, when one or the other network has a better local signal.
For Altice’s Optimum and Suddenlink customers, Altice Mobile is $20 per line per month with a “price for life” commitment. Altice Mobile is also available to non-Optimum and Suddenlink customers who live in or near the company’s 21-state footprint, including throughout New York City, for $30 per line per month.
Company officials expect the service will be profitable in a year.
Sprint and Altice in 2017 signed a deal giving Sprint access to the Altice fixed network for backhaul and antenna siting, while Altice got a full wholesale services deal with Sprint. It is not yet clear how much that deal will contribute to Altice Mobile’s business model, but may be one reason the firm expects to reach profitability in a year or less, something Comcast has not yet achieved.
In 2018 Sprint said it had deployed 15,000 strand-mounted antennas, which likely use the cable infrastructure.
In return, Altice almost certainly has gotten more favorable wholesale capacity terms from Sprint.
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