Altice USA is gearing up for a 3.2% rate hike for its customers across its footprint beginning in June.

News of the rate hike was first reported by The Hour, after the website obtained a letter from Altice to the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority detailing the increases.

In a statement, Altice USA said the increases will average about 3.2% across its footprint and that changes will vary by packages and services.

“We are investing in our networks, services, and the overall customer experience, from launching our Altice One entertainment platform to the deployment of our fiber network, which we are actively building throughout our footprint,” Altice said in a statement. “Our rates, like those of other pay TV providers, continue to be impacted by skyrocketing programming costs, of which we pass just a fraction of those rising costs along to customers.”

According to a report in Fierce Cable, some of those additional charges will include increases to its broadcast surcharge (from $3.99 per month to $4.99) and its sports surcharge (from $2.99 to $3.99 monthly). Set-top rental fees will also rise $1 to $11 per month for new customers and Cable Card fees will increase by 50 cents.

Altice USA is scheduled to release first quarter results on Wednesday and analysts are expecting the New York-based operator to experience some of the same subscriber declines that others in the sector have weathered during the period. 

In a note to clients Monday, MoffettNathanson principal and senior analyst Craig Moffett said a high-profile carriage dispute with Starz in January likely would add to subscriber losses. That impasse was settled in February, with what Moffett called a “predictable programming cost step-up.” A carriage deal with Viacom – which returned those youth-oriented channels to its Suddenlink systems after two years of darkness – also should pressure margins.

But Moffett is high on the stock – down 44% since August – calling the price discount in the shares “something close to Armageddon.”

“We’d rather own cable stocks when they are out of favor (as they are now) than when they are every investor’s darling… as they were last August,” Moffett wrote.

AT&T said the monthly rate on some U-verse products will rise in early 2016 in the wake of higher costs of programming and service delivery.

AT&T, which wrapped up its acquisition of DirecTV in late July, announced that the monthly price for U-family and U-family All In tiers will rise by $2.

The following will see an increase by $3 per month: U100, U200, U200 All In, U200 Latino and U200 Latino All In.  And the following offerings will go up by $4 per month: U300, U300 All In, U300 Latino, U300 Latino All In, U400, U450, U450 All In, U450 Latino and U450 Latino All In.

Among other changes, each billed non-DVR TV receiver will rise $1 per month, and the Regulatory Video Cost Recovery Charge will increase by 1 cent per month.

AT&T U-verse TV’s Broadcast TV Surcharge will also go up by $1 per month in all markets, except for Detroit, Mich.; Biloxi, Miss.; and Wilmington, N.C., where it will go up by 46 cents per month. “This charge is to recover a portion of the amount your local broadcasters charge AT&T to carry their channels,” the company said.

AT&T tied to soften the blow by noting that it has made some improvements, including TV Everywhere products that now offer more than 270 live channels on mobile devices in the home and more than 205 when subs are on the go.

AT&T shed 92,000 U-verse TV subs in Q3 2015, ending the period with 5.85 million subs in the category, while DirecTV added 26,000.  Of note, AT&T is currently focusing on the lower-cost DirecTV platform as its first choice for net adds.

AT&T also noted that the monthly price for its Voice 1000 plan will be $30 for all subs, and the Voice 250 plan will increase by $2, to $27 per month.

All new rates (save for those being paid by customers on U-verse promotional rates) will appear on customer billing statements starting Jan. 28, 2016.