CableLabs working on CableRoam, "cable" without the cable

Try and get your head around this one: CableLabs, the forum of cable-industry players who make and enforce standards for said industry, are apparently working on integrating existing and future wireless standards into something they can call their own. Yeah, pretty funny, right? Supposedly dubbed CableRoam, it's expected to provide alternative home and city-WiFi and WiMax service for cable company customers who in a couple years probably won't be as satisfied with their fixed-line video and Internet services as they are right now. It's a brave new wireless world out there, so what are CableLabs gonna be called sans "cable?" Would it be Labs, or perhaps just The Labs formerly known as Cable?

[Via The Wireless Report]

[apt @ Feb 25th 2006 9:02PM]

I think it should be called "we're desperately and pathetically trying to come up with a 'new' wireless standard so that we can keep our massive profit margins with the advent of free wifi in many areas Labs"

[The Liberal Avenger @ Feb 25th 2006 9:28PM]

I love your snark, Ryan.

[josh @ Feb 25th 2006 11:49PM]

now, call me crazy, but I believe ive heard about this before. If im not mistaken, someone's already done this. Oh yeah, its called satellite tv. (sorry, i just had to point out the obvious.)

[Palmer Woodrow @ Feb 26th 2006 2:06AM]

How about, "We're Lubing up the Broom Handle for You So Bend Over Labs."

[Ryan Block @ Feb 26th 2006 6:10AM]

TLA, unless you're being snarky yourself, thanks!

Best, Ryan

[matt @ Feb 26th 2006 12:23PM]

i think it's more similar to wifi networks in asia that provide cable tv to wireless.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11567711/site/newsweek/