Lightsquared In Talks With Cablevision, Others Deal Could Bring LTE Service to Cable Subscribers
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 | | | Random Thought Wouldn't it be great if Clear separated from Sprint, the FTC rejected AT&T's takeover bid of T-Mobile, and MetroPCS merged with a bunch of the other small carriers and went national.
We've have so much great competition. Ah well... pipe dreams. | |
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| Re: Random Thought said by sonicmerlin:Wouldn't it be great if Clear separated from Sprint, the FTC rejected AT&T's takeover bid of T-Mobile, and MetroPCS merged with a bunch of the other small carriers and went national.
We've have so much great competition. Ah well... pipe dreams.
Recent events have made it abundantly clear that clear is not cut out to run on its own, not only that, but it has a severe lack of capitol. | |
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| timing just seems like the right time to push for this given an at&t merger with tmobile hanging in the balance (if there ever is a right time for a cable company to become a wireless carrier). still, I feel cablevision couldn't pull it off themselves (a national footprint in combination with LS). it would have to get the other top two companies involved: comcast and time warner onboard. | |
| | | | Re: timing said by tmc8080:just seems like the right time to push for this given an at&t merger with tmobile hanging in the balance (if there ever is a right time for a cable company to become a wireless carrier). still, I feel cablevision couldn't pull it off themselves (a national footprint in combination with LS). it would have to get the other top two companies involved: comcast and time warner onboard.
Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner already have an agreement to share Wifi hotspots. I don't see why they can't setup a similar arrangement with LTE, especially if they're licensing the service from the same provider. | |
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| Re: timing said by Dr Demento:Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner already have an agreement to share Wifi hotspots. I don't see why they can't setup a similar arrangement with LTE, especially if they're licensing the service from the same provider.
The costs for a national network are into the 100+ million range easily. To get a serious competitor to the wireless carrier business it would need the funding and logistics (ip backbone support) of more than one cable company. Who wouldn't want an unlimited digital voice & 4g data plan on any smart phone/mifi device you wanted for $29.95? You don't even see sprint offering that... Boost Mobile "bill shrinkage" after 18 months is $35
Now the hard part.. making AT&T wait 3-5 years while this gets built. | |
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Lightsquared money source - Harbinger Capital Partners
