Originally Posted by
Jim Becker
True dat. Coopetition at its best.... Of course, the XFinity implementation only uses the VZ infrastructure when the device needs to be on cellular signal. Otherwise, it all goes through WiFI...all those open XFinity access points that consumers allow (because they didn't opt out or didn't know they could opt out or are not aware their access point is usable by other XFinity subscribers) provide nearly continuous non-cellular connectivity in the neighborhoods, etc. So the impact to VZ's network is a lot less and they get a few shekels from Comcast to share.