Comcast reported to be considering their own mobile service provider business

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Comcast may branch out from cable and landline internet, moving into the wireless service arena in the future. According to a report out of The Information, Comcast has been looking into the idea of creating a nationwide wireless phone network that relies primarily on Wifi with back-up service leased from already-established cellular carriers.
Instead of having to pursue purchasing large blocks of wireless spectrum and rights to traditional cellular towers, Comcast would leverage its currently-available network of Wifi hotspots to provide the majority of traffic for phones. Its Wifi network is growing with installations of public access points ? over a million across various markets ? in large cities and special residential routers that Comcast provides with a publicly-available signal in over eight million homes. But it naturally wouldn't be able to cover the entire country comprehensively ? that's where other carriers come in.

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I hope so.
Here in this area we have Xfinity wifi all over the place.

Comcast is buying up the communications industry.
I keep thinking Comcast will end up owning Verizon.
 

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