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R.I.P. Pivot Wireless
4/24/08 at 1:31 AM by Telecompetitor  It’s official. Pivot Wireless, the wireless joint venture between Sprint and the cable industry is dead. The three major cable partners, who included Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox, have decided to move on. Sprint announced back in October that it would stop marketing Pivot. All existing Pivot wireless subscribers will migrate over to Sprint. There are no firm numbers on exactly how many subscribers the venture ...
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Pivot Wireless Launches – Slow and Steady
7/17/07 at 10:38 AM by Telecompetitor  Cox announced the launch of Pivot wireless service in select Rhode Island markets including Providence. Cox joins Time Warner and Comcast in rolling out the cable industry’s answer to wireless service in select markets across the U.S. Like its Pivot wireless partners, Cox hopes to incorporate video/entertainment features into wireless service and offers content from Fox News, ABC News and the Weather Channel, among ...
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Cable MSOs Approaching Wireless Service Cautiously
6/21/07 at 11:56 AM by Telecompetitor Cable MSOs addressed their Pivot wireless plans at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2007, saying caution was a common approach. Multichannel News reports that executives from Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable all say they are taking their time with Pivot roll outs. All of the MSOs report ‘several thousand’ Pivot wireless subs in their ...
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Cox Launches Pivot Wireless in Oklahoma
5/29/07 at 8:32 AM by Telecompetitor
In what should be a flurry of similar announcements over the next 6 – 12 months, Cox announced the launch of Pivot Wireless in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa markets. Pivot Wireless is a joint venture between Sprint Nextel, Cox, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communications. See our feature story on Pivot Wireless.
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Verizon To Launch Quad Play Later This Year
5/15/07 at 11:00 PM by Telecompetitor
Verizon announced their intention to start bundling wireless service with their current triple play offerings. Cable heavyweights including Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox have all launched quad plays in limited markets through their Pivot Wireless brand (see our feature story on Pivot Wireless). Verizon thinks they have an advantage since they own (in partnership with Vodafone) and control ...
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Will Pivot Wireless Work?
5/15/07 at 12:08 PM by Telecompetitor
The recent news from Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Sprint is that Pivot is alive and kicking – welcome to the quad play of voice, video, data, and now wireless from the cable industry. Give the cable industry its credit – it has come a long way from its monopolistic ways of ...
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Introducing Pivot
3/26/07 at 11:00 PM by Telecompetitor
Sprint and its cable MSO partners have announced that Pivot will be the brand name of their joint wireless service offering. The phone handsets will have a Sprint logo, while a Pivot brand will be present on the handset screen. The cable MSO partners for this venture include Comcast Corp., Time Warner, Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhouse Communications. They intend to ...
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