Optimum parent prices fiber-to-the-home at $80

Registration will allow you to post comments on newstimes.com and create a newstimes.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Altice USA CEO Dexter Goei, left, in May 2018 alongside U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal , in Stamford, Conn.

T-Mobile and Sprint claim their merger will create US jobs

Mobile US and Sprint said Sunday they believed they could win over skeptical regulators to their $26 billion merger because it would create thousands of jobs and help the United States beat China to creating the next generation mobile network. The agreement capped four years of on-and-off talks between the third- and fourth-largest US wireless carriers, setting the stage for the creation of a company with 127 million customers that will be a more formidable competitor to the top two wireless players, Verizon Communications and AT&T.

The Latest: O’Rielly says repeal won’t ‘break the internet’

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. The Federal Communications Commission is voting Thursday, Dec. 14 to undo Obama-era "net neutrality" rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet.

US mobile carriers Sprint, T-Mobile to merge: Report

Japan's SoftBank has reached a broad accord to merge its US subsidiary Sprint with T-Mobile AFP/KAZUHIRO NOGI TOKYO: Japan's SoftBank has reached a broad accord to merge its US subsidiary Sprint with T-Mobile to create a rival to America's top two wireless carriers, a newspaper said Saturday. SoftBank and German group Deutsche Telekom, which holds 64 percent of T-Mobile, are considering a stock swap for the deal, which could be announced as early as this month, the Nikkei daily said.

Former Clinton debate moderator: ‘Perhaps if she was a man I…

From the moderator's chair on a debate night 10 years ago, Dominic Carter asked then-Sen. Hillary Clinton the big question on New Yorkers' minds: Was she mulling a presidential run in 2008 that would pull her away from her constituents? Clinton, running for reelection to the Senate against Republican John Spencer, offered an indirect response. Carter followed up but still didn't get a straight answer.