Sprint Nextel representatives discussed the company’s concerns with proposed commercial...
Sprint Nextel representatives discussed the company’s concerns with proposed commercial agreements between Verizon Wireless, SpectrumCo and Cox and the implications for Wi-Fi, during a meeting with Louis Peraertz, adviser to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. Parts of the public version of an…
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ex parte filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bngm2s) were redacted. “Mr. Peraertz had asked whether Sprint knows of any other discussion or transactions involving WiFi between cable companies and any other wireless carrier,” the filing said. “Mr. Peraertz had asked about the recent agreement among cable operators to offer WiFi services to each others’ customers and how it might affect Sprint customers.” Access to cable Wi-Fi is critical to Sprint, the company said. “Sprint has focused on what happens if Sprint does not have an opportunity to access the cable companies’ combined WiFi platform,” the filing said. “WiFi offload benefits Sprint and other wireless carriers because of the extremely large installed base of phones that already incorporate WiFi chipsets into their circuitry. Numerous business and technical initiatives are underway at Sprint to incorporate WiFi offload into Sprint’s market strategy. The cable companies have the ability to make the WiFi experience inequitable for certain classes of users; for example, by lowering quality or making access more difficult."