THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wrote:Cable TV provider Cox Communications Inc. is planning to have its own cellular network up and running next year, a move that intensifies cable's competition with phone companies.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wrote:Cox's spectrum licenses cover the areas around Omaha, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Diego and Las Vegas, as well as much of Kansas and southern New Mexico. Those areas have about 23 million people, said Stephen Bye, Cox's vice president of wireless.
The Atlanta-based company plans to build its own high-speed 3G network in its cable service area and partner with Sprint Nextel Corp. for roaming outside those areas.
Cox, which has 6 million customers nationwide, will try to pair mobile phone service with its existing cable and Internet options. For example, users would be able to program their DVR remotely through their phone, and also access home e-mail and voice mail accounts. Also, a user's address book, stored on his home computer, would be synced to the phone.
"The network address book has been around for a long time, but it hasn't gotten beyond sophisticated users who take the time and effort to configure it," Bye said.
Cox also says that subscribers would be able to watch TV shows, and possibly full-time channels, on their handsets. The company hasn't set prices on cell-phone service, which markets will get it first, or how long it will take before it's available in all its territories.
Cox will be selling phones under its own brand. Bye had no details on what handsets would be available.
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Brad wrote:I hope Cox Communications does what the do with the home phone and undercut the price of the current providers.
Sounds like it will be a re-markets Sprint service. Â I wounder how many cell towers they will actually have that are there. Â My guess is that it will be more like Cricket and most likely just piggy backing on Sprint in this case.
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Right before I left Cox in July 2007, they were just beginning to roll out Cell phone service in Phoenix. DVR/Cell Phone/Home Phone integration has been in the works for a long time. It just takes Cox forever to actually implement any idea.
They were supposed to integrate the TIVO platform into their DVR's awhile back too, but for some reason it never happened.
Sometime this summer, Omaha will be one of three U.S. markets where cable TV and Internet provider Cox Communications will offer cell phone service.
Hampton Roads, Va., and Orange County, Calif., also will be test sites for the new wireless offerings, the Atlanta-based cable company said Thursday.
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Ross Boettcher
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Starting today, consumers in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area have another option for cell phone service: Cox Communications.
After months of testing and delays in activation, the Atlanta-based phone, cable and Internet provider introduces its new product in three U.S. markets, joining the fray in an already-packed cellular arena.
Ross Boettcher
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:The company said it couldn't keep up with the major players in the wireless industry — Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, for example — because Cox didn't own enough wireless infrastructure to boost its networks to fourth generation, or 4G, speeds, or have deals to get "iconic" wireless phones, like Apple's iPhone.
Cox, the third-largest cable company in the country, announced that it will cease offering its cellular services and handsets today and that all service to current customers will be switched-off on March 30, 2012.
Weeks after abandoning its wireless business, Cox Communications said Friday that it agreed to sell $315 million in wireless spectrum licences to Verizon Wireless as the companies also singed a deal to sell each other's services...................
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