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Cablevision Announces Initial Phase of Market-Wide WiFi Deployment
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Cablevision's Optimum WiFi is Already the Largest and Most Advanced Consumer WiFi Network in the Nation
BETHPAGE, N.Y., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cablevision Systems
Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced completion of the initial phase of its
Optimum WiFi deployment. Already the largest and most advanced consumer WiFi
network in the nation, based on geographic coverage, Optimum WiFi offers free
and unlimited wireless Internet access as a value-added benefit for
Cablevision's Optimum Online high-speed Internet customers.
Cablevision in May announced plans to deploy WiFi in the commercial and
high consumer traffic areas across its entire tri-state service area over the
next two years. The company today announced that it had completed the
deployment of Optimum WiFi throughout the commercial and high-traffic areas of
Nassau County, in areas of Suffolk County, and on the commuter rail platforms
and station parking lots across all of Long Island.
"One of the keys to Cablevision's continued growth and success is ensuring
that we are delivering the best and most technologically advanced services to
our customers," said Tom Rutledge, Cablevision's chief operating officer. "We
believe free and broadly available WiFi access will become an important and
popular enhancement for our Optimum Online customers. Just a few months into
our Optimum WiFi deployment, we have already built and activated the nation's
largest and most advanced consumer WiFi network, which will continue to grow
and expand, ultimately allowing Optimum customers to bring the superior
Internet experience they enjoy at home with them across our entire service
area."
Current Optimum Online customers using laptop computers and portable
WiFi-enabled devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch can access Optimum WiFi
through a simple sign-on screen. Once a customer logs into the service by
entering their Optimum User ID and password, the network delivers fast
symmetrical speeds of up to 1.5 megabits-per-second.
Cablevision currently provides Optimum Online high-speed Internet service
to more than 2.4 million customers, more than 51 percent of the homes passed
by Cablevision's fiber optic network, the highest penetration of any Internet
service in the nation. Optimum Online customers are already familiar with the
benefits of wireless access, with more than half using wireless routers in the
home.
"WiFi has become the most common form of wireless broadband connectivity
in the consumer and mobile worker marketplace in the U.S., especially in major
markets like the New York metropolitan area," said Yankee Group's Chief
Strategy Officer Berge Ayvazian. "Most of Cablevision's subscribers already
have at least one WiFi-connected laptop or desktop computer, and a rapidly
increasing percentage of mobile smartphones have WiFi connectivity, including
all Apple iPhones and many RIM BlackBerrys. The latest frontier is WiFi
connectivity for cameras, media players and printers. By mid-2009, we will
start seeing a new category of 'mobile Internet devices' all of which will be
WiFi connected."
Optimum WiFi uses the same standard used in wireless home networks,
802.11, and any device that is certified by the WiFi Alliance as adhering to
the 802.11 standards and has a browser will be able to access the Optimum WiFi
network. Cablevision has launched a consumer Web site, located at
www.optimumwifi.com, to provide customers with additional information on
Optimum WiFi, including tutorials and detailed coverage maps, which will be
updated as the deployment continues across Long Island and in Cablevision's
service area in New Jersey, Connecticut, Westchester and Hudson Valley, the
Bronx and Brooklyn.
Previously activated Optimum WiFi community zones include the Bridgeport &
Port Jefferson Ferry Line, commercial zones in Sag Harbor, Northport and
Huntington on Long Island; Westport and New Canaan in Connecticut; Peekskill,
Pleasantville and Pelham in Westchester/Hudson Valley; Denville, Ridgewood and
Tenafly in New Jersey; and Parkchester in the Bronx.
About Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation's leading
media and entertainment companies. Its cable television operations serve more
than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's
advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO TV(R) digital television,
Optimum Online(R) high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice(R) digital voice-over-
cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services.
Cablevision operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC,
IFC, Sundance Channel and WE tv, through Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, and
serves the New York area as publisher of Newsday and other niche publications
through Newsday LLC. In addition to these businesses, Cablevision owns Madison
Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty.
The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon
Theatre, and the Chicago Theatre, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.
SOURCE Cablevision Systems Corp.
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