Altice Connects NJ Schools

April 28, 2017
Altice USA's (Euronext:ATC) Lightpath business services division has connected an additional 47 New Jersey schools and school districts to its ...

Altice USA's (Euronext:ATC) Lightpath business services division has connected an additional 47 New Jersey schools and school districts to its fiber network for high-speed broadband services. The effort is through the company's participation in a purchasing cooperative created via the New Jersey Department of Education's Digital Readiness for Learning and Assessment Project (DRLAP), bringing the total number of schools connected by Altice USA's Lightpath under the program to more than 110 over the last two years.

Through its Lightpath, Optimum Business and Suddenlink Business branded services, Altice USA serves more than 375,000 businesses across 20 states, with a network that includes over 14,000 fiber-lit locations, more than 8,000 of which are located in the New York metro area. Lightpath provides managed services, fiber-based voice and data offerings for the education market.

In 2015, DRLAP selected what is now called the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey (ESCNJ) to administer a purchasing cooperative that would make it simpler and more cost-effective for K-12 schools in New Jersey to buy broadband services. Altice USA's Lightpath is one of a set of service providers selected by the cooperative.