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Time Warner Cable launching free Wi-Fi service for NYC customers

By | March 26, 2010, 3:59am PDT

Summary: There’s finally something to praise about concerning Time Warner Cable. The cable provider is launching a Wi-Fi network across New York City, free to its approximately one million customers.

There’s finally something to praise about concerning Time Warner Cable. The cable provider is launching a free Wi-Fi network across New York City for its approximately one million customers in the metropolitan area.

And that is only free for New York City-based customers, who will be able to login using the Road Runner username and password associated with the account.

Time Warner says they are launching “thousands” of Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the region, which are designated on the company’s website. More will pop up soon.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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RE: Time Warner Cable launching free Wi-Fi service for NYC customers
evad719 29th Mar 2010
thee only reason it's free is because who ever has T.W.C is paying for that's a bunch of#@$%$%^&*@@@
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...Cablevision is doing it. It's NOT out of the kindness of their collective hearts.
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What's your point?
JPSeabury 29th Mar 2010
Do you have any idea how much setting up a citywide Wi-Fi costs, nevermind maintain?

Of course they're not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. That would be stupid. But what does it matter why they are doing it?
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I haven't tried it, but Qwest high-speed internet customers get free AT&T Wi-Fi. It's not limited to one city.

http://news.qwest.com/wifi
And I'm stuck with Kabeltown.
thee only reason it's free is because who ever has T.W.C is paying for that's a bunch of#@$%$%^&*@@@

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