Cablevision on Monday announced plans for Freewheel, an all-WiFi mobile phone service offering unlimited data, talk and text to residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The prepaid service will connect to Cablevision’s Optimum Online WiFi network of 1.1 million hotspots. Optimum Online is Cablevision’s high-speed Internet service. Freewheel subscribers will have to cough up $100 for a Motorola Moto G Android phone and pay $10 a month if they’re Optimum Online customers. It will cost $30 a month for others.
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Cablevision Freewheels Into WiFi-Only Phone Territory
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 27, 2015 01:36 PMCablevision on Monday announced plans for Freewheel, an all-WiFi mobile phone service offering unlimited data, talk and text to residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The prepaid service will connect to Cablevision’s Optimum Online WiFi network of 1.1 million hotspots. Optimum Online is Cablevision’s high-speed Internet service. Freewheel subscribers will have to cough up $100 for a Motorola Moto G Android phone and pay $10 a month if they’re Optimum Online customers. It will cost $30 a month for others.