Over the years, Cablevision has been offering digital TV, high-speed internet, as well as home phone services to its customers. Now, the company is extending its services to fixed wireless broadband called OMGFAST in Florida. For a 50 mbps connection, customers are charged at a competitive $29.95.
Since 2004, Cablevision has been working in acquiring several broadband license in more than 45 markets, all through the subsidiary DTV Norwich, bidding in an auction by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Multichannel Video Data Distribution Services or MVDDS spectrum.
The MVDDS spectrum delivers Internet services, as well as wireless video and voice to fixed receivers. Cablevision hopes to use the technology to also provide mobile backhaul services to wireless phone carriers. The company has already requested the FCC to increase the power levels of MVDSS transmitters. Since the release of powerful smartphones running on the Android platform courtesy of Google, and the seeming ubiquitous quality of iPhone's, the demands for mobile data has increased.
Mobile backhaul solutions are becoming more and more important with the proliferation of powerful, wireless gadgets. Just recently, the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company partnered with ADTRAN for the deployment of wireless backhaul communications.
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