Cox Communications set to launch a cellular network
By Laura June 
posted Apr 8th 2009 3:13PM
posted Apr 8th 2009 3:13PM
Well, it's been a long time coming, and it probably shouldn't come as a surprise at this point, but Atlanta-based Cox Communications, the third largest cable provider in the United States, has announced plans to launch its own cellular network. We heard essentially the same news back in October of last year, but the company's reaffirming its commitment to do so by the end of 2009, almost certainly using its portion of the winnings from the 700MHz auction (estimated to be worth around $304 million dollars). Details such as pricing are still a mystery, but Cox's VP of its wireless division, Stephen Bye, said that the network will allow them to offer a bundled television, broadband and wireless service, that it hopes to focus on the burgeoning mobile video market, and that it may launch an app store in order to compete with "what's already out there." We wish them luck.[Via Phone Scoop]
oh yea. just what we need! Just buy Sprint.
Very smart as I think they can actually provide better residential cell phone coverage than AT&T & Verizon and compete. A few slam dunk marketing campaigns saying do you have coverage in your home and they will win consumers. Do you think the cable operators will allow AT&T and Verizon voice traffic to travel over their lines via a femtocell?
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