[opendtv] Re: Comcast unveils wireless service, Xfinity Mobile, for $45-$65 a month
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 02:37:28 +0000
Monty Solomon posted:
Comcast unveils wireless service, Xfinity Mobile, for $45-$65 a month
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2017/04/06/comcast-unveils-wireless-service-xfinity-mobile-45-65-month/100113234/
This is not all that innovative. It's basically TVE, but extended to wireless.
The salient points are that this is a wireless Xfinity MVPD service, presumably
the same as the wired one but that's not made very clear, and Comcast uses a
combination of its own WiFi hotspots and the *Verizon* 4G wireless broadband
network.
No matter what the branding says, the wireless heavy lifting is Verizon. So,
TVE for Comcast, now also available over Verizon's 4G network. Just as was the
case with previous TVE, the remaining artificiality, now technically
unnecessary, is:
"It will be confined to Comcast customers who already pay for home Internet
service, as well as potential new Internet subscribers who reside within
Comcast's footprint."
Eventually, they will have to give up on that "legacy footprint" constraint. It
should be possible to make the service available to all broadband users,
wireless or wired, well outside any "Comcast footprint." Sling TV figured it
out a long time ago, as did DirecTV Now. The obstacles are signatures on pieces
of paper, and the apparent desire to hang onto legacy garden walls. Even though
said walls are being breached more and more, with each marketing twist.
Bert
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