Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a cable and broadband company that delivers Internet, video, voice, and mobile services to residential and business customers across its cable network footprint. Revenue comes from monthly subscription fees across those service lines, sold under the Spectrum brand. Primary competitors in broadband are AT&T and Verizon, which overlap Charter's operating footprint with fiber-to-the-home networks in approximately 27% and 16% of its territory, respectively, as of the FY2025 10-K filed January 30, 2026. The network runs on a two-way all-digital DOCSIS 3.1 platform at 750 MHz or greater, with an active upgrade to 1.2 GHz and eventual 1.8 GHz under a network evolution initiative. Charter has also spent $7.7 billion since early 2022 on a subsidized rural construction program, activating approximately 1.3 million passings. The company is headquartered at 400 Washington Blvd., Stamford, Connecticut.

Revenue model

Monthly subscription fees from residential and business customers for Internet, video, voice, and mobile services sold under the Spectrum brand. Business services extend from small businesses to mid-market and large enterprise customers, including managed services and connectivity at speeds up to 100 Gbps.

Products and services

Spectrum Internet (speeds up to 1 Gbps across full footprint, multi-gigabit in portions); Advanced WiFi with WiFi 7 routers and Spectrum Security Shield; Invincible WiFi tri-band router with 5G backup (launching early 2026); Spectrum Mobile with 5G access, no-contract plans; Spectrum TV with approximately 375 channels plus Xumo Stream Box platform and Spectrum App Store (launched October 2025); Spectrum Voice with robocall blocking; Spectrum Business Internet, mobile, video, and voice for small businesses; Spectrum Business Connect for small business communications; mid-market and large business connectivity and managed services up to 100 Gbps; Advanced Community WiFi for multi-dwelling units.

Customers and end markets

Residential households; small businesses; mid-market and large businesses; government entities. Rural and previously unserved areas are an active expansion target, with approximately 1.3 million rural passings activated since early 2022 under the subsidized rural construction initiative.

Value-chain role

Facilities-based cable network operator. Owns and operates the physical cable and hybrid-fiber-coax infrastructure, constructs new network extensions, and delivers broadband, video, voice, and mobile services directly to end customers. Mobile service is offered as an MVNO layered on top of the wireline Internet subscription.

Geographic exposure

Operates within existing cable franchise territories across states where it currently holds franchises, including rural expansion into unserved areas in those same states. Principal executive offices in Stamford, Connecticut. No international operations referenced in the filing excerpts.

Competitors

AT&T, Verizon, Fixed wireless access providers, National mobile network operators offering LTE and 5G home Internet, FTTH overbuilders, DSL providers, Publicly subsidized municipal WiFi networks

Source: SEC 10-K, filed 2026-01-30

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