Altice bought several regional cable television operators in France from 2002 to 2007, merging them under the brand
Numericable. In 2009,
Patrick Drahi increased his stake in
Hot, a cable television operator in Israel. Drahi completed the takeover in 2011, and offered to buy the remaining shares in 2012. In November 2013,
Orange announced it was selling Orange Dominicana to Altice for $1.4 billion. In March 2014, it acquired
SFR, France's second-largest mobile phone and Internet services company, from
Vivendi. In November 2014, France's competition watchdog approved a deal for Numericable to acquire
Virgin Mobile France for €325 million. In May 2015, Altice acquired a 70% controlling stake in
Suddenlink Communications, which valued the seventh-largest US cable company at US$9.1 billion. The other 30% continues to be owned by
BC Partners and
CPP Investment Board. In May 2015, Altice was said to be launching a bid for
Time Warner Cable, which has a US$45 billion market capitalization, following a failed bid by
Comcast. and sold
Cabovisão to
Apax France (later Seven2). In June 2015, it was reported that Altice had offered €10 billion for
Bouygues Telecom, the third largest telecoms company in France. Bouygues' board refused and as of March 2016, is considering merging with Orange. On 17 September 2015, it was announced that Altice would acquire
Cablevision, a
Bethpage,
Long Island based cable provider for US$17.7 billion, including debt. In October 2015, it was announced that backing the Altice purchase of Cablevision, were
private equity firm BC Partners and
CPPIB. In December 2016, Altice announced its deal to sell
SFR Belux to
Telenet for €400 million. In March 2017, Altice acquired video ad tech firm
Teads for US$307 million. The company filed for IPO in July 2021. In May 2017, Altice and
Altice USA unveiled a new logo and slogan, "Together Has No Limits", and announced that it would unify all of its telecom holdings under the singular Altice brand by mid-2018. Altice split from Altice USA in 2018. In September 2020, Drahi put on an offer of €2.5 billion to buy minority shareholders of Altice Europe and secure control of the company. An increased bid was accepted in January 2021, and the company delisted from the Euronext stock exchange. In June 2021, Altice acquired 12% of
BT. In December 2021, Altice acquired a further 6% stake in
BT taking the total ownership to 18%. In August 2024, Altice sold its 24.5% stake in the British group British Telecom to the Indian telecom company
Bharti Airtel. The total value of the transaction amounted to 3.5 billion euros. In June 2025, Altice France filed for
Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection, weeks after it also entered safeguard proceedings in France. ==Criticism==