Liberty Broadband Corporation, incorporated on June 26, 2014, holds interest in Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter) and its subsidiary Skyhook Holding, Inc. (Skyhook). The Company's segments include Skyhook, Charter, and Corporate and other. Skyhook provides a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi)-based location platform focused on providing positioning technology and contextual location intelligence solutions. Charter is an equity method investment that provides cable services in the United States, offering a range of entertainment, information and communications solutions to residential and commercial customers. Charter offers its customers subscription-based video services, including video on demand (VOD), high definition (HD) television, and digital video recorder (DVR) service, Internet services and voice services.
Charter's video, Internet, and voice services are offered to residential and commercial customers on a subscription basis, with prices and related charges based on the types of service selected. Charter's video customers receive a package of basic programing which, in their all-digital markets, includes a digital set-top box that provides an interactive electronic programing guide with parental controls, access to pay-per-view services, including VOD, digital music channels and the option to view certain video services on third-party devices. Charter's voice services include unlimited local and long distance calling to the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, voicemail, call waiting, caller identification (ID), call forwarding and other features and offers international calling either by the minute, or through packages of minutes per month. For customers that subscribe to both voice and video offerings, caller ID on television is also available in various areas. In certain markets, Charter offers Spectrum Guide, a network or cloud-based user interface that runs on traditional set-top boxes.
Charter offers broadband communications solutions for businesses and carrier organizations of all sizes, selling Internet access, data networking, fiber connectivity to cellular towers and office buildings, video entertainment services and business telephone services. As Spectrum Business, Charter offers video, Internet and voice services to small and medium businesses over its network. Spectrum Business includes a range of video programing and music services. As of December 31, 2016, Spectrum Business also included a set of business services, including Web hosting, e-mail and security, and multi-line telephone services with over 30 business features, including Web-based service management. As Spectrum Enterprise, Charter offers fiber-delivered communications and managed information technology (IT) solutions to businesses, as well as last-mile data connectivity services to wireless and wireline carriers, Internet service providers and other carriers on a wholesale basis.
Charter's advertising sales division, Spectrum Reach, offers local, regional and national businesses with the opportunity to advertise in individual and multiple markets on cable television networks. Charter also sells the advertising inventory of its owned and operated local sports, news and lifestyle channels, and advertising inventory on its regional sports networks. Charter also provides security and home management services to its residential customers in certain markets. Charter provides certain production and technical services to American Media Productions. Charter's last-mile network utilizes a hybrid fiber coaxial cable (HFC) architecture, which combines the use of fiber optic cable with coaxial cable. Charter delivers its signals through fiber optic cable from the headend to a group of nodes, and uses coaxial cable to deliver the signal from individual nodes to the homes served by that node.
Skyhook's Wi-Fi location solution can be used to help carriers and emergency personnel offer E-9-1-1 services domestically. Skyhook can provide customers with an understanding of the type of location; the ability to provide notifications and triggers upon the entry or exit of a device from a pre-defined location, and insights based on historical device locations. These location-based context solutions provide a way for application developers, enterprises, and advertisers to understand consumers' mobile behavior and to improve their user experience, while also providing companies with the ability to reach and measure their audiences in various ways.
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The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in Colorado, CO.| Ticker | LBRDA |
| Long Name | Liberty Broadband Corporation |
| Short Name | Liberty Broadband |