Verizon Dismisses Cable's WiFi Voice Agenda [telecom]

Verizon Dismisses Cable's WiFi Voice Agenda

Is Cable Also Lukewarm about Near-term Wireless Opportunity?

by Gary Arlen

It was hardly surprising that a top Verizon executive brushed off cable operators' plans to develop urban WiFi networks for competitive local voice and data services.

"The cable companies will probably execute on some type of an MVNO [mobile virtual network operator] for WiFi, but we don't believe that it's going to be a replacement for LTE," said Verizon Communications' CFO Fran Shammo at Monday's Deutsche Bank Media, Internet and Telecom Conference.

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