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Sprint Nextel Expands Mobile Cable/Telephone Partnership

"Comcast announced in January its plans to capture 20% of the small business market with bundled wireless services."

Your facts are a little off. Comcast indeed plans to capture 20% of the small business market, but with their traditional triple play product offering, not with bundled wireless. It has repeated stated that it does not intend to compete "on minutes" in the wireless arena, and is still trying to figure out what to do with the product.

From their Q4 earnings call:
"We have no announced plans for any activity out of Spectrum Co. that you haven’t already heard about. But it’s an area that I think we have a lot on our plate in ’07. We will be doing some work with Sprint in a couple of markets to roll out wireless, to see if Quadruple Play has a meaningful difference than Triple Play, better or worse to the consumer.

Other cable operator partners will be doing different versions of that, but one of the benefits of working in partnership with Sprint is we are going to get to see what ideas work and what ideas don’t work, and we continue to monitor it."