Bresnan Hopes to Join Sprint Nextel’s Cable Consortium

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Bresnan Hopes to Join Sprint Nextel’s Cable Consortium

5:30 am on April 12, 2006 | Category: Business, Telecom Services

Cable and broadband provider, Bresnan Communications, has expressed interest in joining the quadruple-play cable/wireless consortium recently created by Sprint Nextel and a number of America’s top cable companies.

“We would like to participate in the Sprint Nextel consortium,” said CEO, Bill Bresnan at the National Show in Atlanta, Georgia. “We’ve had talks with them.”

The consortium already includes Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhouse Communications, all of which have agreed to bundle Sprint’s wireless services with their existing cable, broadband, and digital phone offerings. This will serve to increase the distribution of Sprint cell phones, while allowing the cable companies to expand into wireless services.

Bresnan didn’t say much about the progress of negotiations with Sprint, or give a timeline for adding wireless to the company’s triple-play bundle, which already includes cable, high-speed internet, and digital phone service.

At this point in time, Bresnan Communications has 290,000 basic cable subscribers, 105,000 digital cable users, 105,000 broadband internet subscribers, and 30,000 digital phone users. It currently has operations in the U.S. states of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.