Comcast wants to be your next wireless carrier, plans service launch in mid-2017

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A a big new wireless carrier is coming to town, and it plans on giving rival carriers some serious competition. Comcast – yes the cable and internet service giant that so many love to hate – is going to launch a wireless service sometime in the middle of 2017. According to a report from Forbes, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told a group at an investors conference this morning that the new service, which has been in development for nearly five years, is almost ready for prime time.

The new cell service will use a combination of wireless bandwidth leased to Comcast by Verizon and Comcast’s own network of some 15 million Wi-Fi hotspots. The play is intended to get Comcast customers, who tend to be bundlers, to have one more service to bundle into their package, presumably to save money and reduce bills. Whether the packages actually turn out to be good deals remains to be seen as Comcast hasn’t issued any further details.

One thing is for certain, though: Comcast is getting huge, and it’s got its fingers in more pies than ever before. Here’s hoping the company is prepping a top-notch customer service team because they are going to need it.

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