Cable Providers Prep Sprint Phone Bundles Services will be integrated with DVRs, VoIP Cox, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communications have all been engaged in bundled wireless trials since last November's announcement of a partnership with Sprint. TWC has been testing dual-mode service that allows seamless roaming between home VoIP Wi-Fi and Sprint's mobile network. Under the name SpectrumCo, the companies managed to snag a large swath of spectrum in the recent FCC AWS auction - technically enough to make them the nation's fifth largest wireless provider. Now Sprint tells USAToday that Comcast will start selling Sprint wireless phone service in Boston and Portland at the end of this month. Time Warner, on the other hand, will first offer service in Austin and Raleigh. The deployments have taken longer than expected as the companies have worked to integrate VoIP and remote DVR control with Sprint's wireless phone service.
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  dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Phone, please Screw all the VoIP and DVR controls, just send me a damn phone! | |
|  | | | Re: Phone, please Comcast is already selling mobile phone service in Portland. It's not being advertised, but call and ask about it... | |
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Longport, NJ
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1 edit |  Sprint good data deals; lousy coverage
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| | 04875776Rollin' up my dog endsPremium
join:2006-11-14
Chicago, IL | Re: Sprint good data deals; lousy coverage AT&T has that "unified messaging" gimmick and it's less than exciting. Maybe Sprint can do it better. Ha! I crack myself up sometimes...
Cable companies have no incentive to be price-competitive. Sprint isn't exactly a performance leader and there is no unique feature to drive sales other than the data aspect, and that eats into the MSOs bread-and-butter so don't expect much of a deal there, either.
I keep thinking that Sprint/Nextel is prepping itself for absorption into Comcast or one of the other big cable outfits. They really don't have the chops to compete and their corporate attitude is worse than most. | |
| |  Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | For 07 a 7 billion dollar network upgrade is going to be made while the network is currently being improved. Deployment takes time and I am surprised they are going to get all the EV-DO Rev A upgrades by the end of this year, but we shall see. | |
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| | Current Sprint Customers? I am currently a Sprint customer and curious how this might affect others like me. Will new phones capable of dual/trimode (CDMA, WiFi/VoIP, iDEN) be needed? Will existing accounts be able to be synced up with Comcast? Or will this be new subscribers only?
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. | |
|  intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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| don't worry. like every other ace in the hole Sprint has had, they will figure out a way to bungle this one too.
From all the technological superiority they have, why aren't they the number 1 carrier? Oh wait I know, they are IDIOTS.
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