SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Contract with Customer, Asset and Liability

The following table provides information about contracts assets and contract liabilities related to contracts with customers:

	December 31,
	2019		2018
Contract assets (a)	$	30,758	$	26,405
Deferred revenue (b)	182,034		190,056

(a)Contract assets include primarily sales commissions for enterprise customers that are deferred and amortized over the average contract term.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table presents the composition of revenue:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2019		2018		2017
Residential:
Broadband	$	3,222,605	$	2,887,455	$	2,608,595
Video	3,997,873		4,156,428		4,274,122
Telephony	598,694		652,895		700,765
Business services and wholesale	1,428,532		1,362,758		1,298,213
News and advertising	475,904		487,264		396,187
Mobile	21,264		—		—
Other	15,987		19,808		29,068
Total revenue	$	9,760,859	$	9,566,608	$	9,306,950

Schedule of Stock by Class

The following table provides details of Altice USA's shares of common stock outstanding:

	Shares of Common Stock Outstanding
	Class A Common Stock	Class B Common Stock
Balance at June 21, 2017 and December 31, 2017	246,982,292	490,086,674
Altice Europe Distribution on June 8, 2018 (see Note 1)	242,402,231	(242,402,231)
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock	34,708,184	(34,708,184)
Retirement of Class A common shares in connection with the Company's stock repurchase plan (see Note 1)	(28,028,680)	—
Balance at December 31, 2018	496,064,027	212,976,259
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock	26,730,427	(26,730,427)
Issuance of common shares	6,897,190	—
Option exercises	184,147	—
Retirement of Class A common shares in connection with the Company's stock repurchase plan (see Note 1)	(72,668,712)	—
Treasury shares (a)	(10,457,772)	—
Balance at December 31, 2019	446,749,307	186,245,832