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Cablevision bullish about Wi-Fi but not smartphones

Commenting that he's "not a big believer in the quad play," Gregg Siebert, CFO of Cablevision, said the cable company abandoned the notion of marketing a smartphone that would leverage cellular networks as well Cablevision's network of 80,000 hotspots.

Wi-Fi offloading picks up speed worldwide

Wi-Fi offloading is becoming a bigger factor in emerging markets as operators seek ways to handle the onslaught of data traffic impacting their mobile networks.

CableLabs inks license deal for Wi-Fi hotspot locator

CableLabs licensed its Wi-Fi hotspot locator application to software vendor mPortal, which, in turn, will market the product to cable operators.

Deutsche Telekom partners with Fon to build largest German Wi-Fi network

Deutsche Telekom plans to launch Germany's largest Wi-Fi network in partnership with crowdsourced Wi-Fi provider Fon.

AT&T's customers generate 80% of smartphone, tablet connections on its Wi-Fi hotspots

AT&T Mobility's disclosure of key performance indicators from its thriving Wi-Fi business shed little light on just how much the operator's smartphone customers use its public Wi-Fi networks for offloading data traffic from the cellular network. But a company executive claims AT&T mobile device customers are active users of the company's Wi-Fi hotspots.

AT&T's numbers show carriers' public Wi-Fi networks may not be justifiable

Mobile operators may want to reconsider their level of investment and commitment to the broader deployment of public Wi-Fi hotspots, based on a new report that finds smartphone users much prefer to access private or unmanaged Wi-Fi networks.

Devicescape plans aggressive European expansion for Wi-Fi network

Devicescape predicts its global Wi-Fi hotspot network, which doubled during 2012 to reach 12 million access points--will expand to reach 100 million access points by the end of 2017.

Time Warner: We'll more than double our Wi-Fi hotspots

Wi-Fi hotspots appear to have become an ingredient in churn reduction for Time Warner Cable, and the company is doubling down its Wi-Fi bet this year, with a particular focus on deploying more hotspots in New York City.

Cox deploys Wi-Fi hotpots across Northern Virginia

Cable MSO Cox Communications rolled out a network of 750 Wi-Fi hotspots for its high-speed Internet customers in Northern Virginia's Fairfax County and Fairfax City.

Report: DT mulling investment in Wi-Fi juggernaut Fon

German telco incumbent Deutsche Telekom is close to making a large investment in Spanish Wi-Fi network aggregator Fon, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal . It is still too early to say how a resulting strategy could unfold, but Fon certainly could make an interesting Wi-Fi offload partner for a major service provider like DT.