US cable TV and broadband giant Comcast will expand its business footprint to promote mobile communications services

Comcast is the largest cable TV network operator in the United States (which also provides broadband access and digital telephone services) and a giant in TV media content in the United States. According to the latest news from foreign media, Comcast's business landscape will further expand. Next year, it will launch mobile communication services through its own national Wi-Fi network and mobile operators 'base station networks.

Comcast is the largest cable TV network operator in the United States (also providing broadband access and digital telephone services) and a US TV media content giant. According to the latest news from foreign media, Comcast's business landscape will further expand. Next year, it will launch mobile communication services through its own national Wi-Fi network and mobile operators 'base station networks.

According to reports, at an investor conference held on Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced that the company will launch mobile communication services around the middle of next year. Comcast will not rebuild its own mobile communication network. Instead, it will rely on Verizon, the largest mobile communication operator in the United States.

Comcast has a huge Wi-Fi network in the United States, which will also be used for mobile communication services.

Roberts did not discuss detailed issues such as future mobile communication tariffs, but said that he would use current cable TV network users to make a basis for market expansion.

After entering the mobile communications field, Comcast will improve its competitiveness with AT&T. AT&T is one of the largest mobile communication operators in the United States. Previously, AT&T acquired DirecTV, the US satellite TV service giant. Later, AT&T began to launch bundled TV channels and mobile communication services, in which users who subscribe to satellite TV will be able to enjoy proprietary unlimited traffic data services.

Comcast is currently the largest cable TV network operator, the largest home broadband access provider, and the third largest home fixed telecommunications service provider in the United States. Comcast also owns NBC Universal, which owns a large number of TV channel assets such as NBC and Golf Channel. Earlier this year, Comcast also spent $3.8 billion to acquire Hollywood animated film production company DreamWorks.

It is said that Comcast currently has 14 million Wi-Fi hotspots across the United States. This Wi-Fi network will be able to be used for other mobile communication services. In areas where Wi-Fi is not available, the company will use Verizon's mobile base station network.

In Comcast's Wi-Fi network, most hotspots are set up in public places, parks, coffee shops, etc., and some are provided by users in ordinary households through routers.

Just in July, a new division called Comcast Mobility was established within Comcast, and Greg Butz was appointed head of the division.

In addition, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to auction 600 MHz frequency resources, and Comcast is also interested in bidding.

It is reported that Verizon and Comcast first started business cooperation in 2012. In addition, at the end of last year, Comcast informed Verizon that it was preparing to use each other's mobile communication network to provide mobile communication services.

The U.S. mobile communications market has formed a competition pattern of four companies, of which Verizon and AT&T have become the two giants, and T-Mobile, third place, and Sprint, have relatively few users. Earlier, Japan's SoftBank Group had invested heavily in acquiring Sprint, which was then the third place. However, it encountered difficulties during the integration process and Sprint had fallen to the end. This acquisition also caused a huge financial burden on SoftBank. It is believed that SoftBank's boss Masayoshi Son underestimated the difficulty of "gold mining" in the U.S. mobile communications market.

In addition to the four operators, there are also a number of virtual operators in the United States. Among them, Google has launched communication services based on T-Mobile and Sprint physical networks, but they have not been launched on a large scale. They are only used as a value-added service for its private-brand smartphones.

The US website pointed out that Comcast's current cable TV, broadband, fixed-line and other users will be able to obtain bundled mobile communication services in the future. Roberts, the above-mentioned executive, also said on Tuesday that through service bundling, it will be able to reduce user churn rates, increase user stickiness, and increase customer satisfaction.

Editor: yvette