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Altice USA (formerly Cablevision) is a subsidiary of Altice NV, and an American cable television provider/multiple system operator with systems serving areas surrounding New York City, and in 16 other states through currently independent subsidiary Suddenlink Communications.

Excluding Suddenlink, Altice USA is the fifth-largest cable provider and ninth-largest television provider in the United States, with most customers residing in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and parts of Pennsylvania.

Altice USA also offers high-speed Internet connections (Optimum Online), digital cable (Optimum TV), and Voice over IP (Optimum Voice) phone service (the eighth-largest telephone provider in the U.S) through its Optimum brand name; as well as fiber-optic business class data and voice services across the New York area under the Lightpath brand.

Altice USA is the successor to Cablevision Systems Corporation, founded by Charles Dolan.

Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.

Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term Wi-Fi Certified to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing.

A digital video recorder (DVR) is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.

The term includes set-top boxes with direct to disk recording, portable media players and TV gateways with recording capability, and digital camcorders.

Personal computers are often connected to video capture devices and used as DVRs; in such cases the application software used to record video is an integral part of the DVR.

Many DVRs are classified as consumer electronic devices; such devices are sometimes referred to as personal video recorders (PVRs).

A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone.

The term is also used more broadly to denote any system of conveying a stored telecommunications voice messages, including using an answering machine.

Most cell phone services offer voice-mail as a basic feature; many corporate PBXs include versatile internal voice-messaging services, and *98 Vertical service code subscription is available to most individual and small business land line subscribers.

Electronic mail, or email, is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers and mobile phones.

Email first entered substantial use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email.

Email operates across computer networks, which today is primarily the Internet.

Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging.

Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model.

Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages.

Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.