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Cox, Sprint Cellphone Service Is No Longer

Huffington Post - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
NEW YORK -- Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, stopped offering cellphone service Wednesday, saying it's too small to compete with the big cellphone companies. Cox, based in Atlanta, ...

Summary Box: Cox kills cellphone service

Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
AP THE AMBITIONS: After inaugurating the service less than a year ago, Cox added service areas throughout the year. The goal was to tie all of its technologies together by offering customers four services on one bill: cable TV, Internet, home phone and ...

Summary Box: Cox Communications kills Sprint-based cellphone service

Washington Post - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
NO MORE: Cable TV company Cox Communications will stop offering cellphone service. THE AMBITIONS: After inaugurating the service less than a year ago, Cox added service areas throughout the year. The goal was to tie all of its technologies together by ...

Cox kills Sprint-based cellphone service

Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, stopped offering cellphone service Wednesday, saying it's too small to compete with the big phone companies. Cox, based in Atlanta, inaugurated the service less than a year ago, ...

Cox stops selling mobile service

Computerworld - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
IDG News Service - Cox Communications, which planned its own mobile network in 2008 but later settled for reselling Sprint Nextel service, stopped selling wireless altogether on Wednesday. The third-largest US cable operator said it ...

Cox no longer to offer Sprint-based cellphone service

USA Today - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
NEW YORK â€" Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, says it will no longer offer cellphone service because it's too small to compete with the big phone companies. Cox, based in Atlanta, said it stopped ...

Cox Communications To Close Down Wireless Phone Service

Forbes - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
In a development that could have reverberations elsewhere in the cable sector, Cox Communications announced that effective today it will stop signing up new customers for Cox Wireless, the cable company's mobile phone service. The company will continue ...

Cox hangs up on cell phone service

CNET - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
The cable provider said that it will stop selling its wireless service to new customers starting Wednesday, November 16. But it will continue offering the service to current ...

Cox to Stop Offering Wireless Service

Wall Street Journal - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cox Communications Inc., one of the country's largest cable companies, said it is ending its foray into offering wireless phone service, forcing customers from San Diego to Rhode Island to switch to another carrier. ...

Cox Wireless

WPRI.com - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cox communications shutting down wireless service.

Cox, USO and Area Food Banks Partner to Hold Special "Thank You" Food Drive ...

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Nov 15, 2011‎
Visit any Cox Solutions Store from Mon., Nov. 21 - Thurs., Dec. 8 to drop-off non-perishable food items CHESAPEAKE, Va., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cox Communications, in partnership with the USO of Hampton Roads/Central Virginia and the ...

Cox to Discontinue Wireless Cellphone Service

San Diego Business Journal - ‎Nov 18, 2011‎
Cox Communications, the Atlanta-based media firm that has the largest share of the San Diego cable market, said it will discontinue its recently rolled out wireless cellphone service effective March 30. Cox said the decision to stop offering its 3G ...

Cox to shut down wireless service

Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Late last night, Cox Communications announced that effective today, it will no longer sell its 3G wireless service, although it will continue to provide the service to its customers until March 30. Cox said its decision to exit the wireless phone ...

Cox ends bid to offer wireless phone service

Kansas.com - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Cox Central Region spokeswoman Sarah Kauffman said today that the company is no longer selling wireless service in markets where it was offered. In those markets, customers will continue to have service through March 30, she said. ...

Cox abandons wireless phone service

Hartford Business - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Cox Communications scrapped its wireless phone service on Wednesday, citing an inability to compete in a rapidly narrowing wireless marketplace now dominated by Verizon and AT&T. The third-largest US cable TV company, Atlanta-based Cox said its ...

Cox Pulls Plug on Mobile

GoLocalProv - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Cox Communications is hanging up its cellphone service. The short lived program got axed by Cox nationally - the program was launched in 2010. How many Rhode Island consumers are affected is not known. The cable company stopped selling services as of ...

Cox Communications scraps cellphone service

Middle East North Africa Financial Network - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Nov 16, 2011 (North County Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Several weeks after launching its Cox Wireless cell phone service in San Diego County, Cox Communications scrapped it because of lack of demand, ...

Cox Communications abandons wireless unit after just one year

TeleGeography - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Cox Communications, the third largest cable broadband operator in the United States, has announced that it discontinued selling Cox Wireless, its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service, on Wednesday 16 November â€" blaming an inability to compete ...

Cox Communications abandons cell phone service

Bizjournals.com - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Atlanta-based Cox Communications will end cell phone service after less than a year of entering the market, reports The Associated Press. The company says its service is too small to compete with large phone companies. Privately held Cox, the nation's ...

Cox Communications exits cellphone service sector in Roanoke area

Middle East North Africa Financial Network - ‎Nov 17, 2011‎
Nov 17, 2011 (The Roanoke Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Cox Communications has dropped out of the cellphone business in the Roanoke area just four months after launching the service. The company is halting its cellphone ...

Cox decides to abandon wireless phone service

The Virginian-Pilot - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Just shy of a year after launching wireless telephone service, Cox Communications Inc. announced that it is dropping that business. Cox abruptly stopped selling wireless devices and service plans Wednesday, according to a statement ...

Cox Communications Ends Mobile Services Offering

PhoneNews.com - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cable services provider Cox Communications has announced that it will end its mobile services offering consisting of its own mobile phone services next March and has ended offering the service to new customers ...

Cox Giving Up Completely on Wireless Business

All Things Digital - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
The cable company said that it will stop selling cellular service as of today and will discontinue service to current customers as of March, though it promised to help them transition to other providers. Cox has been reselling 3G service from Sprint to ...

Cox writes the obit on its mobile service

GigaOm - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cox Communications is ending its not-so-grand experiment with mobile on March 30. The cable provider said in a statement it would discontinue its wireless service on March 30, appeasing its mobile ...

Cox kills short-lived wireless services

Daily Press - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
Cox Communications Inc., the largest cable company in Hampton Roads, said Wednesday that it is ending its short-lived foray into offering cellular phone service, leaving its customers until March 30 ...

Ending Its Brief Foray Into Wireless Phone, Cox Shows Class

Hartford Courant - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
It seemed like a natural fit when Cox Communications Inc. jumped into the wireless business this past spring. The cable companies were already selling Internet access and home phone in addition to TV, so why not wireless as well? ...

Cox gives up on wireless service

SignOnSanDiego.com - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
The Atlanta-based company, which operates San Diego County's largest cable system, is pulling the plug on its wireless offering, the company said. Cox just introduced wireless in San Diego in September. It has about 500000 local pay TV subscribers. ...

Cox kills wireless service

Pacific Coast Business Times - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
By Staff Report on November 16, 2011. Barely a month after rolling out 3G wireless phone service in Santa Barbara, Cox Communications cut off the offering effective today. Faster competitors and a lack of the iPhone doomed the plan, the company said. ...

Cox discontinues wireless phone service

Providence Business News - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
ATLANTA â€" Cox Communications discontinued selling its wireless phone service Wednesday, citing a lack of scale to compete. Cox will continue to provide service for its wireless customers through March 30, 2012. ...

Cox Says RIP to Wireless Service

Channel Partners - ‎Nov 16, 2011‎
The cable giant says, effective today, it's no longer selling Cox Wireless, but will continue providing the service until March 30, 2012, giving customers time to get cell service from another company. Special offers will be available to customers to ...

 

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