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Free Cablevision Wi-Fi To Offer VoIP, Video
$300 million investment to help battle FiOS
by Karl Bode Monday 29-Sep-2008 tags: Video · competition · business · wireless · alternatives · cable · VoIP · Cablevision
Fierce Wireless chats up Cablevision's senior vice president of wireless product development Kevin Curran about the company's plan to offer free Wi-Fi to all of their customers. The network will cost about $100 per customer (Cablevision has 3.1 million cable customers) and take about two years to finish, with Curran suggesting that the finished product, tied into an upgraded DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure, will be able to provide both VoIP and video services. The deployment's primary purposes is to help give Cablevision's battle against Verizon FiOS.

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tmc8080

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this is good.

give to customers a freebie(value added to voip subscription) what verizon turns you upside down to empty out your pocket change and folding money for... this can be a good thing... except, not for verizon... if it catches on, expect time warner to go lock step behind this plan.

Duramax08
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Re: this is good.

free=good
sunny8294
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Re: this is good.

Amen!

Matt
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said by tmc8080:

expect time warner to go lock step behind this plan.
It'll NEVER happen. Cablevision covers a minuscule area compared to Time Warner. Time Warner will go the WiMAX route, not WiFi.
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Re: this is good.

TWC could do the wifi coverage in their covered cities were it makes sense. In some areas they offer wifi hotspots. It was going to be a national thing but then they stopped doing it.

TWC needs to follow foot with CV in what they do such as this.

I wish my local cable company would do this. We have DOCSIS 2 with 3 coming soon. It wouldn't be a problem.

pv8man999

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Futile

Good come back from Cablevision but resistance against the FTTH is Futile.
Bobcat
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It's not free

When are you going to realize that $300 million is not free?

Duramax08
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Re: It's not free

free for the consumers, not free for the operators.
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Re: It's not free

said by Duramax08:

free for the consumers, not free for the operators.
What, CV customers aren't going to pay one way or another?
tmc8080

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said by Bobcat:

When are you going to realize that $300 million is not free?
Cablevision would have to ante up the $300 million for docsis 3 anyway when FTTP goes live with 50/50mbit and 100/100 mbit GPONs. The wifi & voip upgrades are the icing on the cake. What will Verizon be giving away? Free bill increases? Surcharge upgrades? Set top charges, subscription cancellation fees from hell? Something tied into their overpriced cell phone service? No way they're giving LTE broadband away free to compete with the likes of Cablevision
majortom1029

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hmm

No matter what anybody says this is a good move by cablevision. I am staying with cablevision for this reason alone. Being able to go anywhere on long island and get the net without any additional costs is a huge advantage for me.

Heck i have been using it already.

dvd536
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Free wifi cant compete against

20 megabit and higher UPLOAD rates offered by verizons fios.
hottboiinnc
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Re: Free wifi cant compete against

but you don't get those speeds when you're outside of your network at home.

With CV you get your cable vision service anywhere they have wifi. VZ had this but decided not to offer it anymore. They had it several years ago. And just because VZ is doing FTTH doesnt mean CV isnt making a great move. This would be a reason for businessmen/women to use CV at home alone. they don't have to pay for EVDO when they're out on the road in the Long Island area.

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said by dvd536:

20 megabit and higher UPLOAD rates offered by verizons fios.
perhaps for business, there is no official upload tier faster than 20mbit today (though there have been rumors of 30mbit upload in MDU's negotiated with Verizon in NYC). docsis 3 will have symmetric tiers no doubt. probably where docsis 2.0 tapers off, 30-38mbit symmetric and go up from there (still at a great price, $29.95)

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