Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision Offering Shared 'CableWiFi' Network

Verizon's cable partners have formed a shared WiFi network of 50,000 hotspots for customers to use. Increasingly, differences between the wireless carriers' and cable companies' offerings are disappearing.

There’s a new WiFi game in town. Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks, Cox Communications and Cablevision Systems have announced “CableWiFi,” a new network of more than 50,000 WiFi hotspots that can be shared by the customers of the various partners.                                                  

Bright House and Cablevision have already implemented the CableWiFi brand in Central Florida and the New York City area, respectively, and the others plan to add the name to their branded WiFi hotspots during the next few months.

Cablevision aside, the partners have recently also entered into bundling agreements with Verizon Wireless. Read More