SeeMe

There was an article in our paper this week about the joint venture between Sprint and a coalition of cable companies, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhouse. Has anyone gotten any advertising or given any thought to getting your wireless service from your cable provider? Here's a link to an article about it. Special Focus: Sprint/Cable Joint Venture: Who Wins? Who Loses?

It's also on Sprint's website. Thought it was interesting.

taiarain

I believe in diversification. I don't want all my eggs in one basket. Especially since I lost cable internet for four days when Excite! died. Our provider never bothered to tell its customers that we were all using the Excite! infrastructure. Not willing to leave my cable, internet, landline & cell all in the same place to wait for someone else's bankruptcy.

SeeMe

So you are not for getting your cell phone from your cable company? I don't know that I feel the same way about my cable company. Mine is pretty stable.

taiarain

Absolutely not. No way.

The Excite! mess was not a question of stability. My cable company is very stable and I can only think of one non-weather related outage. However, much like phone companies, they were piggybacking on someone else's infrastructure to provide internet service. When that infrastructure died, so did service for a lot of people who had no idea we had anything to do with Excite!