When did Optimum Online start its high-speed internet service?
About Optimum Online Optimum Online (www.optimumonline.com) is the high-speed Internet access solution offered by Cablevision Systems Corporation, one of the nation’s leading telecommunications and entertainment companies. Based in Bethpage, New York and launched in 1997, Optimum Online is the industry’s first self-install cable modem service and the fastest growing cable modem service in the New York metropolitan area. In August 2002, Optimum Online was honored in PC Magazine’s 15th Annual Reader Survey, earning a Readers’ Choice Award, and the only broadband ISP to receive an A+ rating by PC Magazine readers. With more than 600,000 subscribers and an average of 4,000 new customers signing on every week, Optimum Online has the highest market penetration of any cable modem service in the country. Optimum Online provides one of the fastest, always-on Internet connections for the home – offering access speeds up to 100 times faster than dial-up and up to four times faster than DSL. Optim
