Cox Customers Officially Make the Jump to Spectrum

Two of the country’s largest internet providers have officially become one, as existing Cox customers will start getting their monthly internet bills from Spectrum from Wednesday.

Charter, which sells phone, internet and TV services under the Spectrum brand, agreed to buy Cox in May 2025, but the deal didn’t clear its final hurdle until the California Public Utilities Commission approved it last month.

The acquisition creates the largest internet provider in the country, with Charter now boasting more than 35 million customers. While internet monopolies are a major problem in the US — over a third of Americans only have access to one or no internet provider — this acquisition won’t necessarily make that problem worse. That’s because Charter and Cox have very little overlap in the areas where they operate.

“No consumer is going to lose a competitive offering they currently have,” Blair Levin, a telecom industry analyst...

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