NCTA: Cable VoIP booming for Sprint, wireless next
ATLANTA-- Sprint Nextel now serves more than 1 million voice-over-IP customers through its cable TV partners, the company announced today. In addition, the company is adding new cable companies to its partner roster, including WEHCO Video, NPG Cable and Shrewsbury Electric and Cable Operations.
Industry News
Blogs
Briefing Room
advertisement
Separately, the company's CEO, Gary Forsee, said at the NCTA show here that Sprint is adding cable partners to its fixed mobile-convergence partnership and will roll out service over a national footprint in 2007.
"We are pleased with the progress" of that partnership, Forsee said at a press conference following his appearance on a CEO panel. "We have been in get-ready mode."
The service is being trialed in Portland, Ore., Raleigh, N.C., and Austin, Texas, and will be rolled out on a trial basis in New England in the third quarter, he said.
Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, which is one of Sprint's wireless partners, said the companies have "100 people meeting weekly working on the back-office side of this--the unsexy stuff--so we can bring products out" that take advantage of full service integration. "This is not a marketing bundle," he said.
On the VoIP side, Sprint's subscribership has quadrupled and the company generated $100 million in revenue from the cable deals in 2005. That number will hit $1 billion by 2009, Sprint is forecasting.
Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.
advertisement
Learning Library
Webcasts
Using Real-Time Offers, Alerts and Interactions To Improve the Mobile Broadband Experience
In this Webinar you will learn how to create a real-time relationship with your customers, how to proactively improve the customer experience, and how to successfully target and cross-sell services to boost incremental revenue.
- Megabytes to Megabucks, Bandwidth to Business Models: How 4G Is Changing Everything
- How to Unplug Your Redundant Telco Apps To Save Money and Improve Efficiency
- When IaaS Isn't Enough: Service Provider Business Models to Drive Growth and Build Margin
- How to Transform Your Aging Telco Voice Network to Drive New Profits and Revenue
- Creative Licensing Approaches for Telcos & Their Network Equipment Vendors
- Smart Home Opportunity: Balancing Customer Data & Privacy
White Papers
The Role of Diameter in All-IP, Service-Oriented Networks
This paper discusses the rise of Diameter and benefits of Diameter Protocol.
- Conducting The Orchestration – Order Management at the Speed of Business
- Toward a Converged Network Edge
- Beyond Spam – Email Security in the Age of Blended Threats
- 6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filtering Solution
- The Expertise to Protect You from Botnet and DDoS Attacks
- Seeing is Believing – Bridging the Order Visibility Gap
Featured Content
A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment
Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time,
to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service
turn-up.
Stay Connected
of interest
The Latest
News
From the Blog
Briefingroom
Join the Discussion
advertisement
Resources
Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:
Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.
Subscribe Now