Xfinity is the largest cable internet provider with a presence in 39 states. Spectrum is offering one of the best deals: free broadband and Wi-Fi up to Mbps for 60 days to households with K or college students who don't currently have Spectrum service.
Installation and prepayment fees are waived. Only new customers are eligible, and the deal is applied as a credit for the first two months of service. Both Optimum and Suddenlink, under the same parent company, are offering new customers free internet for 60 days.
Households with students K and college students who don't have home internet service are eligible for the Altice Advantage 30Mbps broadband solution. The company also has a low-income internet program, Connect2Compete.
Cox is available in 19 states , with the strongest coverage in Arizona, California, and Virginia. In California, Google is working with the local government to set up Wi-Fi hotspots in rural households that will be free for three months. Google is also donating to students. Many schools are doing what they can to support online education for their students. Some districts are deploying WiFi-enabled school buses to park in different neighborhoods during the day to offer internet access to students in the area.
Some school districts are partnering with cell phone providers to give students LTE-enabled tablets or and mobile hotspots. Students seeking internet access should check with their district, university, and local internet provider for resources available to them. Best Chromebook for students Student-proof laptops.
When users connect to the network, they will be taken to a landing page encouraging them to browse Google Play content. Because no Windows Phone, iOS or Blackberry devices can use content from Google Play, this leaves them out of the offer, as there is nothing in it for Google. Since there is no way of knowing whether laptop users own an Android device or not, they are still able to connect.
This means that users of other devices may be able to get around the restrictions by using a tool that allows them to customize their user agent string such as the Atomic Web browser for iOS or User Agent Switcher for Windows Phone 7.
Once again, Google's insight about people, learned by where they surf and what they look for Google. Now, add all that up, and Google will be the first of all the major media companies to be able to deliver a very geo-targeted, content relevant, personalized offer that is sponsored. Marry Comcast and Google together, toss in a variety of access options WiFi, WiMax, Mobile WiMax, Broadband and tie together the models of sending party pays, sponsored content, sponsored access, and low cost subscriptions to access, with high speeds, and you have the future of how media is both delivered and consumed.
I say this because it is exactly how the media that is being eliminated first and second by the Internet was built also, and since we know history always repeats, all one needs to do is look at print media, magazines and newspapers, the first media to be basically put to rest by the online world. There advertisers plus subscription or pay as you go models underwrote your readership. Readers paid a subscription fee which was supposed to cover postage or delivery and the advertisers or a sponsor underwrote the publishing costs.
The second media which is seeing erosion, is radio, which is losing audience to streamed content and personalized portable content that is streamed or downloaded. Radio required the purchase of a receiver but the delivery was ad supported, so in essence we had "sending party pays" with the receiver paying for access to both print and broadcast. The same applied to over the air television, and even to cable - pay for basic, get local TV stations. Pay for more, get the cable channels.
Pay even more get the premium content. Pay even more, get the on demand content. Pay even more, have a PVR personal video recorder and so forth. That all leads to what Cablevision is doing, and why their move is so smart. Cablevision is insuring connection to their customers, and only their customers first, in the metro New York area. Basically, if you're a Cablevision subscriber you can get your content anywhere their footprint is.
Toss in gap fillers like FON and Meraki , both of which are shared access for "community members" and all of a sudden you have access for everyone, everywhere, without the need for muniwireless. Esme Vos once shared a simple idea to make the city of San Francisco wireless. Her idea was simple. Make it a tax base item. Have the cafes, restaurants and beauty shops all offer WiFi-on one city wide network, and pretty much you would have coverage once you add in schools, libraries and business towers and office parks.
The cable and telcos would sell the access, and for the most part, we would have a democratized network, where bandwidth on demand solutions would insure a steady high quality connection. Now, layer in the sponsored, paid or subscription access model and you have everyone making money, something that is far different from the failed concept of what was called Municipal Wireless which Earthlink undertook.
So, at the end of the day, when I look at the sponsored access model, I see history repeating itself once again. Only this time, the players aren't the incumbents in either telecom or media. This time its a whole new group of players. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
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