• by Mark Walsh  @markfwal, April 15, 2010

Call if Wi-Fi Everywhere for New Yorkers: Cablevision Systems Corp., Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable are teaming up to provide customers of any of the operators access to Wi-Fi hotspots across the New York City metro area.

The reciprocal agreements will allow authenticated users to go online through thousands of Wi-Fi locations throughout the region, chiefly via Cablevision’s Optimum WiFi service. Time Warner offers Wi-Fi service in several parks and some Long Island Railroad platforms and their respective parking lots in the company's service area.

Cablevision and Comcast already had an agreement in effect, covering part of Comcast’s New Jersey territory and access points at certain NJ Transit rail stations, according to Multichannel News . Does this mean iPhone owners (with cable subscriptions) will finally stop gnashing their teeth over spotty service in New York?