Cox Communications considers selling 3G network

Cox Communications Inc., the third-largest U.S. cable-TV operator, is considering selling its wireless network to a large telecommunications company, President Pat Esser said.

Cox will either sell the infrastructure to a company such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. or Sprint Nextel Corp., or tear down the network, Esser said Tuesday in an interview in Chicago. Cox has no plans to upgrade the network, which uses so-called third-generation technology, to support the faster 4G standard, Esser said.

Full Story: Cox Communications considers selling 3G network Source: Providence Business News, June 17th, 2011 Author: Alex Sherman Added on June 17th, 2011 at 10:25 am, by Muse en Lystrala

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Cox_Eric

Submitted on June 17th, 2011 - 5:08pm link

No customers were ever on the 3G networks we were building, and therefore this announcement has no impact on the service we successfully launched in Rhode Island last month. We are using our wholesale relationship with Sprint to deliver Cox Wireless, and customer response to our unbelievably fair offers has been terrific. We will continue to launch wireless in new markets, bringing Cox Wireless to more than 50 percent of our footprint by end of 2011.
Thanks,

Eric Wagner
Public Relations
Cox Communications