WaveDivision Holdings, LLC,

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Wave Broadband, is an American provider of residential, business, and enterprise class

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, and

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services to around 455,000 customers in

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, and

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. Wave provides services via their own

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network and has approximately 1,300+ employees. The company was founded by its former

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, Steve Weed, in 2003, by purchasing cable systems owned by

Northland Communications Northland Communications (formerly known as Northland Cable Television) was an American cable television, telephone and internet service provider with systems in various portions of the United States. Northland Communications currently owns and o ...

, Cedar Communications, and

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and

. It was expanded by acquiring other, some distressed, cable, telecommunications, and broadband companies. On May 22, 2017, it was announced that Wave was to be acquired by

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for $2.36 billion. Wave Broadband was combined with RCN Grande, two other cable/internet companies controlled by TPG Capital. RCN provides services along the East Coast and in Chicago similar to those of Wave; Grande operates throughout Texas. Wave is expected to continue to operate under its own brand after the merger is complete. The acquisition of Wave by TPG was completed on January 24, 2018. In November 2020, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners announced that it would acquire

Astound Broadband Astound Broadband is an American telecommunications holding company based in Princeton, New Jersey. It was formed on January 24, 2018, with the completion of the $2.36 billion purchase of Kirkland-based Wave Broadband by private-equity firm TPG ...

, which operates Wave, from TPG for $3.6 billion in a

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that included an additional $4.5 billion of debt.

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