Who really has 3g Coverage at home?
3G coverage at home could be a huge opportunity for high speed internet providers who already have connectivity into the home. The chart below depicts an uncharted opportunity for these high speed internet access providers to participate in the wireless revolution and compete against AT&T and Verizon. Of the 7,000 different high speed internet access providers who visited Deadcellzones.com in 2009 (according to Google Analytics), there seems to be a high concentration of 10 broadband and cable / DSL providers who frequently contribute dead zone data to our user generated coverage maps. This has given us data to estimate that roughly 70%+ of US homes do not have seamless 3G coverage and 50% do not have any home coverage. Our list below represents the IP addresses of the ISP networks when someone visits our web site http://deadcellzones.com
Time Warner (Road Runner) is the 3rd largest high speed internet access provider with 15 million customers yet has the highest frequency of visitors who complain about cell phone coverage at their home. Comcast is the largest high speed internet access provider with 25 million homes and also has a highest frequency of visitors to Deadcellzones.com. Ironically, Verizon who brags about their 3G coverage maps with 15 million high speed internet customers is very high up on a this list. If this information made its way into a commercial Verizon's executives might get some egg on their face. Will Verizon be able to compete with cable companies getting into the home cell phone business?
We think cable companies will eventually be formidable competitors in wireless considering most people use their phones 70% indoors. The battle is just beginning and the big players are trying to figure out coverage, bandwidth, spectrum, etc. Here is a ranked order of cable and wireless carriers by subscribers who are all fighting for wireless lines into the home to compete for femtocell deployments in the US
High Speed Internet Access Subscribers and (Femtocell Option):
- Comcast - 25 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
- AT&T - 20 million (AT&T microcell)
- Time Warner - 15 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
- Verizon - 15 million (Airave femtocell)
- Cox - 6 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
- Cablevision - 5 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
- Charter- 5 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
- Bright House - 2 million (Sprint / Clearwire Wimax femtocell)
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Oh God something else for comcast to do poorly. I live in the Memphis area and comcast puts the suck in sucks. Drive down the streets within 5 blocks of me and all you see is direct TV and Dish TV. Is there a site that tracks penetration of direct tv and dish tv to an area if there is can someone email me a link at jgjspy@yahoo.com
Cablevision said it is testing a mobile phone that can switch between its WiFi network and a cellular network. The company did not say what cellular company or companies it is partnering with.
Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge disclosed the trials during the company's fourth-quarter earnings conference call, and said that when a user is on the MSO's WiFi network the phone will run over WiFi and then it will switch to a cellular network outside of the company's footprint. The company offers free WiFi service to its customers in the New York metropolitan area.
"The test is so far proving to be good and consistent with our view of what is possible, and gives us some hope that we will be able to launch additional products using the WiFi network that will look like what some people think of as cellular telephone," he said. Rutledge added that Cablevision has not made any decision as to whether it wants to build its own cellular network or lease capacity, but that the latter would be "a less capital-intensive, higher-return business."
Potential partners for Cablevision include T-Mobile USA, which already offers UMA-enabled devices that allow customers to make calls over WiFi. Another partner could be Sprint Nextel, which is the majority owner of Clearwire, which counts Comcast and Time Warner Cable as its wholesale partners. Cox Communications also is riding on Sprint's network for its test cellular markets, and will use Sprint as a national roaming partner when it launches its own 3G wireless network on its AWS spectrum this month.
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