26.03.2007 19:00:00
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Innovative Wireless Service Gives Customers the Power to Feel at Home Anywhere
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S), Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA,
CMCSK), Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC), Cox Communications and
Advance/Newhouse Communications today launched the branding of "Pivot,”
the integrated service that gives consumers the ability to link their
mobile phone service with their home digital phone, and certain
high-speed internet services and digital cable services. Pivot combines
powerful wireline and wireless networks to bring more useful
capabilities to customers, such as one-button access to the Internet,
home and wireless email and mobile TV.
"Pivot was designed to help customers connect
to home with an easier, more convenient and more affordable way to keep
in touch, stay informed and be entertained. We want to make technology
work better and faster for the customer—and
with our unique partnership, we can do things our competitors can’t,”
said John Garcia, president Sprint/MSO Joint Venture. "Pivot
links your wireless phone with the comforts of home. Our common vision
is to give customers anywhere easy access to the entertainment,
communications and information services that are already important to
them.”
Pivot provides customers with the ability to watch live and mobile TV,
access home TV listings using a programming guide like the one they use
at home, check home email and voicemail from one source, access the
Internet, make unlimited calls between their cable home service and
mobile phones, and have the convenience of one point of contact for
service and billing.
In addition to keeping customers connected to the things that are
important to them and making it convenient and easy to use their
home-based services, Pivot remains affordable by providing value where
customers need it most—their pocket book.
(Specific pricing varies by market.) Additional benefits include:
An all-inclusive wireless plan (voice, text, data, entertainment)
called Pivot Plus;
No additional cost for exclusive voice features that link your home
and mobile phones;
Night Calling on all Pivot plans starting at 7 p.m. –
so you can maximize your minutes;
And, for a limited time, customers can connect with family and friends
with free text messages on any Pivot or Pivot Plus plan.
Pivot is now available in eight metropolitan areas (Raleigh, N.C.;
Austin, Tex.; Boston; Portland, Ore.; San Diego; Phoenix; Cincinnati;
and Dayton, Ohio).
Pivot is expected to launch in 40 metropolitan areas in 2007. The
capability to program your home DVR from your Sprint phone will also be
available to customers in select areas in 2007. Customers can buy this
service by visiting Sprint retail stores in those markets or by calling
the cable companies call centers. Currently, four handsets from the
Sprint portfolio are featured in the Pivot offering, although the
service is available on any Sprint handset.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com)
is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and
communications products and services. With 24.2 million cable customers,
11.5 million high-speed Internet customers, and 2.5 million voice
customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development,
management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery
of programming content.
Comcast’s content networks and investments
include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel,
VERSUS, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, four regional
Comcast SportsNets and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops
and operates Comcast's Internet business. Comcast also has a majority
ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the
Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA
basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems passing approximately
26 million homes in 33 states. The Company has 14.6 million customers
for its various products, including video, high-speed data and
residential telephone. This includes approximately 13.4 million basic
video subscribers and more than 6 million customers who purchase more
than one product. Time Warner Cable includes some of the most
technologically advanced and best-clustered cable systems in the
country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company’s
customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas, Ohio, the
Carolinas and southern California. It is the largest cable provider in
the nation’s two largest cities, Los Angeles
and New York. Leveraging its leadership in innovation and quality
customer care, Time Warner Cable delivers advanced products and services
such as video-on-demand, high-definition television, digital video
recorders, high-speed data and Digital Phone.
About Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a multi-service broadband communications and
entertainment company with more than 6 million total residential and
commercial customers. Cox offers an array of advanced digital video,
high-speed Internet and telephony services over its own nationwide IP
network, as well as integrated wireless services in partnership with
Sprint (NYSE:S). Cox Business Services is a full-service,
facilities-based provider of communications solutions for commercial
customers, providing high-speed Internet, voice and long distance
services, as well as data and video transport services for small to
large-sized businesses. Cox Media offers national and local cable
advertising in traditional spot and new media formats, along with
promotional opportunities and production services. More information
about the services of Cox Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Cox Enterprises, is available at www.cox.com,
www.coxbusiness.com, and www.coxmedia.com.
About Advance/Newhouse Communications
Advance/Newhouse manages Bright House Networks, which provides digital
video, voice and broadband data services to more than 2.3 million
subscribers in Tampa Bay, Central Florida, Indianapolis, Birmingham,
Bakersfield and Detroit, along with several smaller systems in Alabama
and panhandle Florida. Advance/Newhouse is a privately held company
headquartered in Syracuse, New York. The Advance/Newhouse partners’
other interests include Condé Nast magazines,
PARADE magazine, daily newspapers serving 26 cities, American City
Business Journals, which publishes business journals in over 40 cities,
Advance Internet and CondéNet, producers of
online services, and a significant interest in Discovery Communications,
Inc.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including
two robust wireless networks serving 53.1 million customers at the end
of 2006; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and
international walkie-talkie capabilities; and an award-winning and
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.
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