Where Optimum reports internet service, on cable and on fiber

Optimum's footprint in one paragraph

As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), Optimum reports residential service at 5,406,073 locations in 21 states. Its largest states are New York (1,469,116 locations), Texas (1,221,817) and New Jersey (999,256). No other state comes close to New Jersey's share: Optimum is filed at 38.6% of its homes and businesses, against 31.2% in New York, 28.9% in West Virginia and 19.7%¹ in Connecticut. "Available" here means Optimum told the FCC it could install service within ten business days; each listing can be challenged on the FCC map.

The company behind the brand is the former Altice USA, which changed its corporate name to Optimum Communications in November 2025. Its FCC filing lists two brand names under one provider ID: Optimum and Lightpath.

Lightpath: filed, but not for homes

The FCC's location-level availability files record, for every listing, whether service is offered to homes, to businesses, or to both. Every Lightpath listing under the Optimum filing carries the business-only code, so this site leaves it out, as it does all business-only records (see the methodology). Lightpath is the reason the FCC map shows an Optimum fiber listing in Boston, Miami, Baltimore or Philadelphia: in Massachusetts, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware and DC, Optimum files no residential service at all, and in Pennsylvania and Virginia its residential listings are small (1,875 and 4,692¹ locations).

Every figure below is Optimum's residential network only.

The home network: cable in two regions, fiber around New York

Optimum's residential service runs on two kinds of wire. Cable is reported at 5,390,379 locations, at 100/20 Mbps or more at 5,380,218 of them, with advertised downloads up to 2 Gbps. Fiber is reported at 2,319,852, all of it at 100/20 Mbps or more, up to 10 Gbps¹. A location can appear in both counts, and most fiber locations sit inside the cable footprint.

Fiber2,319,852

Cable5,390,379

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where Optimum reports each technology, as of June 30, 2026. A location reached by two technologies counts in both.

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Technology	Locations	At 100/20 Mbps or more	Fastest advertised download (Mbps)
Fiber	2,319,852	2,319,852	10,000
Cable	5,390,379	5,380,218	2,000

The first region is the New York metro area. Optimum's fiber reaches 31.2% of New Jersey's locations, 25.5% of New York State's and 18.2% of Connecticut's, and in several cities it covers about nine in ten addresses: 92.1% of Bridgeport, 91.8% of Elizabeth, 91.2% of Stamford, 90.6% of Paterson, 90.3% of Yonkers and 89.9% of Newark. The map has gaps close by: Optimum is filed at 33.1% of New York City locations (fiber at 27.3%), at 0.2% of Jersey City, and its fiber reaches only 0.1% of Waterbury. The fastest advertised tier in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is 10 Gbps¹.

The second region runs through smaller cities and towns in West Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Missouri, Arizona and a handful of other states. There it is almost entirely cable. In Texas, Optimum reaches 11.8% of locations but reports fiber at only 1.0%, and its fastest advertised tier in the state is 940 Mbps. Its West Virginia network tops out at 2 Gbps¹, with no fiber filed at all.

The Texas cities show how complete that cable coverage can be. Optimum is filed at 94.4% of Georgetown's locations, 92.8% of Amarillo's, 92.1% of Lubbock's, 91.5% of San Angelo's and 89.3% of Tyler's, with fiber at 3.7% or less in each. In the Dallas area it reaches only 0.7% of Dallas and 1.8%¹ of Frisco.

Where Optimum is the only wired choice

At 1,236,057 locations, Optimum is the only wired provider reporting 100/20 Mbps. Among states the share is highest in West Virginia, 14.1% of all locations, followed by New Jersey (7.3%) and New York (5.9%). In Louisiana it is 4.1%, in Texas 1.9%¹.

Among large cities, the clearest case is Georgetown, where Optimum is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps for 57.8% of locations; in College Station the share is 36.3%. Around New York, fiber coverage has not brought a second wire everywhere: Optimum is the only one at 26.5% of Paterson's locations, 24.1% of Yonkers', 20.6% of Elizabeth's and 16.4% of Newark's, against 4.0%¹ in Bridgeport.

The table sets the New York-area fiber cities against the two Texas cable towns.

Change since 2022

Between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026, Optimum's residential footprint barely moved, +47,753 locations, while its fiber footprint grew by 951,800³. The new fiber was built mostly over Optimum's own cable in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, so homes already on Optimum's cable gained a fiber listing from the same company rather than a new provider. Since December 31, 2025, the filing has been nearly flat: +40,072 locations overall and +42,215⁴ on fiber.

Counts across releases also move because the FCC updates its list of locations with each release, so part of any change is the list, not the network.

Every state

The table lists each state where Optimum reports residential service, with its technologies, its fiber locations and the change since June 2022.

Cities with the highest Optimum share

Among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, the list below holds the two networks side by side. The New York-area cities, from Stamford and Yonkers to Newark and Paterson, have Optimum fiber at about nine in ten locations. The Texas cities, from Amarillo to Conroe, are Optimum cable towns where fiber is a few percent at most.

All figures are Optimum's own FCC filings as of June 30, 2026. They contain no prices or plan details, which Optimum must publish on its broadband facts labels, and they cannot confirm service at an address. The FCC map shows the brand, the technology and the home-or-business code for each listing; Optimum confirms the rest.