If you are a customer of Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc and Cablevision Systems Corp, you will soon be able to use your Wi-Fi enabled devices in New York metropolitan area even if you are out of range from your local cable company devices.
These three companies have reached an agreement to allow their respective high-speed Internet customers to roam freely across each of their Wi-Fi networks with devices like laptop computers and Apple Inc iPad.
These three cable companies are building out free Wi-Fi services for their customers across their respective regions at locations like major train stations and public parks.
Being a customer you can access all these three Wi-Fi services and sign on to your own provider's network. As they are offering free Wi-Fi as a part of their fixed-line Internet service, the cable companies hope they can beat back competition from paid-for wireless Internet services from phone companies like AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications.
Most New York City metropolitan areas has these three cable companies who jointly cover most including parts of New Jersey with there connections. Therefore if you are a part of any of these three cable companies, you can get free Wi-Fi.
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