Imagine: Your local cable operator is offering its customers free Wi-Fi throughout your region.
Submitted 112 days ago by Skyzar
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| I'm a cable customer already and this gives me a reason to stay with them. | |
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If I was a cable company, I'd set up every customer's home with a repeater and then give away the wifi network as part of your regular subscription. Why make users pay for a service twice just because they happen to be on the go. They could still have it password protect to prevent freeloaders and to track people trying to release viruses, but it would give them a huge advantage over DSL.
I would also offer the much talked about, but rarely seen quadruple play and offer cell phone service to my customers as well.
Of course even if I wasn't a cable company, it's still a good idea to give away free wifi to your customers. I will seek out hotels, coffee shops and restuarants that let me surf the net for free, but if they charge for it, then it makes me feel negatively about their products that brought me into the store to begin with.
I dont see that happening.
cable sucks, Satellite dish all the way
For Internet access?
Around here the dish for TV and dsl cost less together than the cable alone.
agree
It would depend on the price of the cable and the quality of the wi-fi. I don't watch tv, so if it costs more than my current internet, I'm not going to bother. Furthermore, not all wi-fi is created equal, and some connections can be worse that using dial-up.