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Cablevision To Launch Wireless Broadband Network
[May 09, 2008]

Cablevision To Launch Wireless Broadband Network


(TechwebNews.com Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)

NEW YORK - Cablevision Systems said on Thursday it is planning to build a wireless broadband network to serve its subscribers in the New York area.

The company's Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge said the new network, which will have speeds up to 1.5 megabits per second, will be completed within the next two years.

News of Cablevision's wireless plans comes after larger cable companies Comcast and Time Warner Cable teamed up with wireless companies Sprint Nextel and Clearwire in a new $14.5 billion wireless venture that will use WiMax technology. (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)



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