Missed it completely again Bert.
This is Comcast reselling Verizon cellular service with the ability to access
your TV channels via both the Comcast Wi-Fi hot spots and Verizon cellular
(with "metered TV data service."
The geographic restrictions are based on the Comcast service footprint. Clearly
the content owners are not allowing Comcast to offer this service outside areas
where they already have license agreements with Comcast.
Regards
Craig
On Apr 6, 2017, at 10:37 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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