Social data gathering and cellular data offload?
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Kimo Crossman wrote:
> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 (
>>
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