PatriciaGottesman, Cablevision's executive vice-president of product managementand marketing, told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference thecompany had "aggressive" plans to deliver such a service but gave notime frame.
Cable companies and telephone companies have talkedabout converging wireline and wireless services for years, but no majoroperator has yet to launch such a product.
Asource close to the company said its digital phone network, whichdelivers calls over the Internet, is compatible with wireless networks,allowing one phone to be used as both a cellphone and a home phone. Cablevision,which has 3 million subscribers predominantly in the Long Island, NewYork area, says 20 percent of its cable television subscribers alsotake its digital phone service.
The company was the only majorcable operator not to join Sprint-Nextel Corp. in forming a jointventure, first announced in November 2005, that aimed to explorecombining mobile phone services with television, home phone andInternet services.
Operators including Comcast Corp., Time Warner Inc.'s cable unit and Cox Communications joined the venture.
Rogers and Shaw have essentialy divided up the Canadian market between the two of them, with the blessing of the CRTC (that's the regulatory agency that oversees the telecom and broadcast industries in Canada). There's other minor players in Canada, but Shaw and Rogers are the two monolithic industry giants. The only thing those two don't have their fingers into is local land-line phone service. The canadian telcos made damm sure of that. That's how SaskTel, Telus, MTC, Bell and the others stay in buisness.
So for those counting ... Rogers now has the following
1 - Cable Television
2 - Highspeed Internet
3 - Voice Over IP
4 - Wireless Telephone
5 - Copper Based Telephone
6 - Video Rental Stores
7 - Major League Baseball Team (that would be the Toronto Blue Jays)
For a list of assests owned by Rogers (Teddy) see here
CV has added services to try and stem the inroads Verizon is making. For instance, offering a 30/2 Internet connection and supposedly a 50/5 connection in the near future.
I suspect this wireless thing is another example of an offering to keep it's customers from defecting to Verizon.
Competition seems to be a good thing in the market I am in. :-)
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