Cable One

Cable One, Inc. is an American broadband communications provider. Under the Sparklight brand, it provides cable television, internet, and phone services to 24 U.S. states and 1.1 million residential and business customers.^[3] It also owns the Fidelity Communications brand, which provides the same services in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.^[4] Fidelity was founded in 1940.^[4] It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, though it does not serve that metro area.

Originally established in 1986 as a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company (now Graham Holdings Company) known as Post-Newsweek Cable, its name was changed to Cable One in 1997.

In June 2015, Graham Holdings Company distributed 100% of Cable One’s common stock to GHC shareholders in a tax-free transaction. Cable One became an independent publicly traded company as Cable One, Inc. and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CABO.^[5][6]

In summer 2019, Cable One rebranded its residential services division as Sparklight, seeking to promote its internet services more than cable TV offerings.^[7] Equipment with Cable One branding is still used by existing customers, with new customers receiving equipment with Sparklight branding. Cable One's original URL, cableone.net, redirects to sparklight.com.^[8]

Sparklight provides broadband service via cable (DOCSIS) through most of its footprint, and fiber-to-the-home in limited areas.

Sparklight provides phone service plans such as Economy Phone, Standard Phone, and Elite Package with Starter Plan Plus.^[9]

Sparklight ofrece tres planes de televisión por cable: Economy Cable TV, Standard Cable TV y Elite 100 Plus. ^{[ 10 ]} También se puede acceder a la televisión por cable en Apple iPhone , Android , Windows , Roku , Xbox One , Xbox 360 y Nook a través del servicio TV Everywhere de Sparklight. Sparklight ofrece un paquete digital que incluye canales como Red Zone, HBO y Showtime como complementos. Los canales de cable propiedad de Paramount Global que eran propiedad de Viacom antes de la fusión con CBS Corporation que formó Paramount están notablemente ausentes de la programación de Cable One después de 2014 debido a desacuerdos entre Viacom y Cable One. ^{[ 11 ]}

En 2020, Cable One anunció un nuevo servicio basado en IPTV , Sparklight TV, que estuvo disponible en muchas áreas a lo largo de 2021. Los clientes de cable existentes aún no están obligados a cambiarse a Sparklight TV, pero el servicio de cable a través de un decodificador ya no se ofrece a los nuevos clientes. ^{[ 12 ]}

• Sitio web oficial
• Datos comerciales de CableOne:
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  • Reuters
  • Documentos presentados ante la SEC
  • Yahoo!