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Along the way its stock, which had languished well below its $30-per-share June 2017 initial public offering price as investors continued to be skeptical, soared by more than 75% so far this year, which could put the operator back in the hunt for more cable properties. In the meantime, Altice USA, the Multichannel News 2019 Distributor of the Year, has reduced year-over-year video customer losses for six straight quarters and boosted broadband subscribers. “That substantial margin improvement as we often discussed is supporting higher investments in all of our growth initiatives and as always, we’ll continue to look for ways to optimize our cost structure,” Stewart said on the call. “That’s great, because having that cloud-based platform that we can modify at will remotely helps us deliver what is the most important factor whenever you come up with an innovation — to create a ‘wow’ effect right out of the gate.” As the fiber build progresses, Boubazine said the plan is to leverage the network even more and eventually move to a “headless architecture,” which he said essentially eliminates the need for internal wiring. Its deal with Sprint (and eventually T-Mobile, when that merger is complete) gives the cable company the ability to transfer wireless traffic to its own WiFi network and to substantially reduce costs.