AT&T U-verse Wayport is doing a deal with San Francisco to provide free WiFi down the main boulevard Market St.
It does not require subscription to AT&T. Any guess on their reasoning? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Zach Mann <zma...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is what I've been working on the past 6 months or so. Ruckus put > together a nice unit for cable company's. See attached. > > Zach Mann > 9137107220 > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2013, wrote: > >> ** >> >> Time Warner Cable (NYSE: >> TWC<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=55&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0>) >> said late Wednesday that it is beginning to build a WiFi network in Austin, >> Texas – a move that could help it compete next year with new market entrant >> Google Fiber (Nasdaq: >> GOOG<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=193&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0> >> ). >> >> In addition to offering cable modem customers free Wi-Fi, Time Warner >> Cable said it'll offer prepaid access to non-subscribers for $2.95 per >> hour, the same price it charges customers on a WiFi network it built last >> summer in Charlotte, N.C. The company is marketing its WiFi service in >> Austin with the TWC WiFi brand. >> >> Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ruckus Wireless is supplying Time Warner Cable >> with gear for the WiFi rollout in Austin, spokesman Bobby Amirshahi told >> *FierceCable*. Time Warner said it has already built a "limited number >> of hotspots" in popular locations in the city, and that it would turn on >> "hundreds more" this year. >> >> The move comes about two weeks after Google announced that it will launch >> Google Fiber in Austin by the middle of 2014. Google will offer download >> speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. In addition, it will offer a >> subscription video service that comes with a DVR containing eight tuners, 2 >> terabytes of storage and a Nexus 7 tablet that is used as a remote control. >> >> Time Warner Cable, Comcast (Nasdaq: >> CMCSA<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=177&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0>), >> Cablevision (NYSE: >> CVC<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=179&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0>) >> and other MSOs have used WiFi deployments partly as a subscriber retention >> tool. While cable operators offer free WiFi access to existing broadband >> customers, Google Fiber plans to offer a free 5 Mbps service to any >> resident in Austin and other cities as long as they pay an installation fee. >> >> Austin is the fourth market where Time Warner Cable has built WiFi >> hotspots. In September 2011, the MSO announced that it would spend $15 >> million on a WiFi network in Southern California. Canadian WiFi vendor >> BelAir Networks, which was acquired last year by Ericsson (Nasdaq: >> ERIC<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=212&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0>), >> supplied it with WiFi access points in California. >> >> Last summer, Time Warner Cable announced that it would spend $2 million >> to build a WiFi network in Charlotte, ahead of the Democratic National >> Convention. Ruckus Wireless built the Charlotte WiFi network. >> >> Time Warner Cable also has a WiFi roaming deal with Comcast, Cablevision >> Bright House Networks and Cox Communications that lets cable modem >> subscribers access about 100,000 WiFi hotspots that use the CableWiFi >> network ID. >> >> COO Rob Marcus told analysts in January that Time Warner would double its >> investments this year in WiFi, and that it would concentrate much of the >> WiFi rollout in New York, where it competes with Verizon (NYSE: >> VZ<http://links.mkt1985.com/ctt?kn=114&ms=NDg5NzkxNAS2&r=NDc2MTk4ODcyMzcS1&b=0&j=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&mt=2&rj=MTUwNzUwNjU5S0&rt=0>) >> and RCN. The MSO is scheduled to report first quarter earnings Thursday >> morning. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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