Cable companies seeking wireless partners should take a look at T...
Cable companies seeking wireless partners should take a look at T-Mobile, ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman said in an interview. T-Mobile is seen by some analysts as an “extremely likely candidate” for a cable partnership (CD Dec 28 p4). T-Mobile’s…
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Wi-Fi hand-off service HotSpot@Home would work well with the Internet backbone cable provides, offering excellent wireless coverage in cable customers’ homes, Wahlman said. It costs relatively little to add Wi-Fi, so cable would have to pay only “incremental costs” for T- Mobile’s cellular network to provide service when customers aren’t in range of a Wi-Fi router, he said. Cable companies could save more still by building municipal Wi-Fi networks in cities, he said. Municipal Wi-Fi has struggled because laptop owners don’t use it, he said, predicting that BlackBerry and other cellphone users could turn the networks into moneymakers.