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Cable companies partner to extend customers' Wi-Fi access

Internet access will be in many more locations

Photo credit: Newsday, 2009 / Ana P. Gutierrez | Internet access will be in many more locations under a deal signed by Cablevision, Time Warner and Comcast. The three have agreed to give customers access to all WiFi services.

Cable subscribers on Long Island and in New York City now have access to additional high-speed Internet networks beyond their own company's coverage area.

In a novel arrangement, Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp., New York City-based Time Warner Cable and Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp. announced that, as of Thursday, customers of the other cable companies can use their Wi-Fi networks...

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