Cable Companies Kill Sprint-Nextel's Pivot Joint Venture
April 23, 2008 6:15 PM | Sprint Nextel | Comments (0)
 The three U.S. largest cable Comcast Corp said they have stopped marketing the Pivot service and plan in the coming weeks to give their Pivot customers the option to switch to Sprint's traditional mobile phone plans. |
Pivot customers will be able to keep their cell phones and their cell phone numbers and receive a month's free Sprint service for their trouble. They'll also be given a set period once they've switched over to cancel their contract without penalties.
Pivot was announced in November 2005 so the cable operators could offer a "quadruple play"; which includes voice, video, Internet and wireless products to battle against the telephone companies who added TV to their arsenals.
