BOSTON--The nation's largest cable operators are banding together to offer free Wi-Fi access to their broadband customers in more than 50,000 hotspots around the country.
On Monday, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable announced on the first day of the Cable Show here that they'd enable each other's broadband customers to access their metro Wi-Fi hotspots. The companies are calling the new network "CableWiFi," so that subscribers will be able to find the hotspots when they're roaming outside their own cable territory.
In early 2010, Cablevision, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable began allowing their subscribers to roam onto each other's Wi-Fi networks in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Connecticut. And Bright House Networks and Cablevision have already launched "CableWiFi" alongside their branded WiFi networks around New York City and in central Florida earlier this month.
The "CableWifi" network will be added to each of the participating cable companies' services in the coming months. This means that Cablevision customers from Long Island will be able to access Time Warner's Wi-Fi networks in Los Angeles, and vice versa.
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