Cable Sprints Into the Wireless Game

[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Mike Farrell]
The nation’s three largest cable-system operators are close to signing an agreement with Sprint Nextel to supply wireless telephone service to their subscribers. The deal, if completed and executed rapidly, would make Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications the first large suppliers of four major forms of communication: television, Internet access, telephone and now, wireless services. The agreement with the three operators allows for the relationship to expand and include additional products and services. One such future service could allow a cable network to handle the handoff of a call from a network inside the home to the cellular network outside. That would make it possible to use the same handset both as an Internet protocol-based home unit and as a cellularly-linked mobile phone.
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