Monday, October 27, 2008

Cox Communications plans to launch cellphone service in the second half of 2009

Sam Churchill on Monday, October 27th   using the 700 MHz spectrum they bought last year.  "We've spent $500 million buying wireless capacity in our markets," President Pat Esser says. "Now, we're going to turn it on."  Cable operators have long seen cellphones as an important weapon to compete with AT&T and Verizon, which are rolling out TV services that compete with cable's core video business. Comcast (25M) and Time-Warner Cable (13M), the first and second largest operators in the United States, have joined with Sprint on a 2.5 GHz Mobile WiMAX initiative. Cox is the third-largest cable television company in the United States, with more than 6.2 million total residential and commercial customers scattered through 15 states, with major markets including San Diego, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Oklahoma City.  ...

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