Cablevision’s Free WiFi Marks Two Million Sessions
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, June 15, 2009 · 
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Cablevision Systems Corp.’s offer of free WiFi for its Optimum Online high-speed Internet customers has proven to be quite popular. The service has logged more than two million sessions since its launch last year, and is currently averaging more than one million minutes online per day.
The second million sessions took place in under three months, less than half the amount of time as the first million.
The network, which launched in Nassau County in September 2008, is now available across Cablevision’s Long Island, Connecticut, Westchester/Dutchess and New Jersey service areas. Cablevision expects to complete deployment of its $300 million wireless access network to broadband customers throughout its entire New York metropolitan service area by early 2010, at no additional cost to its customers.
The service boasts “thousands” of WiFi access points across Cablevision’s area of operation, and is marketed as free, bundled of course with standard home Internet service.
Cablevision is billing the service as a competitive alternative to wireless data cards from cell companies. Cablevision also notes that most wireless carriers offer WiFi enabled mobile devices at this stage in the game.
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