Cablevision joins the wireless party, plans to cover NYC with WiFi
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 8th 2008 8:11PM
posted May 8th 2008 8:11PM
Comcast, Time Warner, and Bright House all threw down in the new Sprint-led Clearwire venture yesterday, but it looks like Cablevision wants in on the fun as well: the company announced today that it's spending $350M on a new wireless broadband network in New York. Unlike the Clearwire partnership, Cablevision is apparently going to use straight-up WiFi for the service, but it's not revealing any details at the moment, saying only that it'll run at 1.5Mbps and eventually handle voice as well. The plan is to get up and running in NYC within two years, and existing customers will be able to log on for free -- and if this really is straight-up WiFi, we'd bet a lot of other people will be joining the fun as well.
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Please low rank this f*cker.
Maybe time to update your logo Cablevision?
whoo hoo... free wifi for me.. :)
oh wait.. it's gonna take 2 years? I'm not sure if I'll be a cablevision customer till then.. or maybe I wouldn't even be in NYC ;)
pal :)
This is exactly what I'm talking about (I commented on the other post)
If the companies are smart, existing users will get either free or reduced price for this wireless stuff.
they call themselves Optimum now...
This is thier new logo..
http://img.optimum.net/images/header/logo_optimum_152_v2.gif
pal :)
I'm not your pal, buddy.
I'm not your buddy, guy.
too much south park =[
....one more:
...he's not your guy, Fwend!
SWEET! I have Cablevision here in CT, and I love NYC.
pal, they're still called Cablevision. Optimum is simply the name of their consumer division. Lightpath is their business/enterprise/corporate division, etc.
Wonder what the speeds will be, I doubt it'll compete with my boost or even boost on a wireless router.
Bad idea. We have city WiFi in Toronto, and it sucks, badly. WiFi simply is NOT designed for outdoor use. You can barely get a signal on the street, and unless you know where they hid the access points, it's impossible to find either.
WiFi was and always will be an indoor technology. Let WiMax do the outdoor stuff, plz.
30mbit / 5mbit + 5 Static IPs for $55/mo
and now with free wifi?
WIN!
Amazing, i love my boost.
It's already started. I can get free Optimum WiFi at the Hicksville
NY train station; thats on Long Island, it's a 50 min ride into NYC from there; Hicksville is a 10 min ride (by car) from Cablevision HQ.
I just sign in with my ID ( I'm a Optimum online user at home)
You know, as bad as they fucked up the Knicks over the past few years, Cablevision still knows a thing or two about data. I get something like 40 HD channels (with good quality picture) and 15mbps down speeds. And when I say 15mbps down, I mean at night I can get downloads of 1.5 Megabytes per second.
I'm excited for this, but by then I'll probably have to move out of NYC :-(
Cablevision is NOT in NYC, that is Time Warner. Cablevision has all of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, the two suburbs known as Long Island, plus much of CT.
Cablevision can be found currently in the Bronx and Eastern Brooklyn, and these boroughs are a part of NYC :)
CV used to serve 4 boroughs from what I remember. CV and TW's contracts with NYC are over this year and Verizon is making a big play. Things may change some more.
Didn't know that about Time Warner's contracts. I'm in Manhattan so I have TW, and hate them with a passion. I'm sure it's just like the cell providers -- they all suck, just in different ways. But I wouldn't mind a little competition for the spot of NYC's cable provider. My parents live on the Island and have Optimum (Cablevision). They get more than twice the download and upload speeds that I get. That drives me nuts.
hell yeah, i'm the only rank change on here. joke post ftw. sorry eg. i had never done that before, see that winky face? yeah that means i'm doing it the fun.
It looks like they're doing NY state in parts where they service, not just NYC.
They already have this up and running in parts of their service area. IN huntington village, port jeff (at the ferry terminal) in merrik and parts of NJ. (running for about a year or 2)
I have used it before and its rpetty nice. SSID is optimumwifi.
What about Long Island Cablevision?
How about you update your HD channels Cablevision!
Update your DVR boxes also, they suck!