[opendtv] Mobile Services and Cable TV Are Unexpected Allies
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:36:42 -0400
Mobile Services and Cable TV Are Unexpected Allies
By AMY CHOZICK
September 23, 2012
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Tucked amid rows of office cubicles at the
sprawling Verizon Wireless headquarters here and hidden behind a
locked door sit the company's best kept retail secrets.
The mock store looks like a Verizon Wireless retail outlet right down
to the signs for the iPhone 5 and racks of mobile accessories. But on
one wall, an experimental display of tablets and smartphones labeled
"Home Services" offers Verizon customers a new service: cable TV.
The display is a little-known result of Verizon's $3.9 billion
purchase of spectrum from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cox
Communications and Time Warner Cable that the Federal Communications
Commission approved last month. While most attention has focused on
how the purchase of unused airwaves will help Verizon expand its new
fourth-generation wireless network, a less publicized result is that
cable companies can now use Verizon's retail presence to sell cable
packaged with phone and wireless service.
So in mock store displays to be introduced across the country next
month, Comcast's Xfinity cable service app appears on an "attract
loop" that plays on a plasma television. Verizon customers will be
able to browse television listings on a Verizon Samsung tablet and
learn to set their DVR remotely using Xfinity's service. "Verizon
Wireless & Xfinity, Better Together," an in-store sign says.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/business/media/verizon-airwave-purchase-unites-mobile-and-cable-companies.html
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