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Sprint to Offer Wireless Services To Cable Companies

In more convergence news, Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications Wednesday announced a partnership with Sprint Nextel to develop wireless apps that will allow users to watch TV on their mobile phones. The deal also means these companies could potentially offer TV, Internet, home phone and wireless service on one bill, which would make for intense competition between cable operators and bigger phone companies like SBC Corp. and Verizon Communications, as they all try to offer consumers multiple services from a single provider. Sprint and Comcast also hope to offer services like DVR programming via wireless phones by next year.

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