AirTies rescued Altice USA from WiFi bedlam, still won’t talk about it

Altice USA has confirmed the services of AirTies as instrumental in the operator’s Smart WiFi offering, a deployment Faultline figured out when Altice USA first introduced the WiFi upgrade in February. Linking AirTies to Altice USA’s Smart WiFi was the easy part, with all roads leading to the Turkish WiFi pioneer well before images of AirTies extenders began appearing on Optimum and Suddenlink websites. The hard part is establishing intricacies of the cableco’s WiFi project, and where this fits into the broader broadband strategy, at a time when Altice USA is undergoing a confusing approach to M&A– including selling fiber network assets while buying up more cable. Six months down the line, Altice USA still refuses to give AirTies the…