Time Warner Cable will start selling its high-speed, wireless Internet service in the Triangle on Dec. 1.
This region's main cable-TV provider is expanding its reach into new services as it tries to offset weaker growth among cable subscribers and increasing competition. That includes digital phone and new digital TV products such as one that allows viewers to restart a show from the beginning.
The company also is pushing "bundled" packages of services to boost total revenue.
Prices for the Road Runner 4G mobile network will start at $39.95 per month for customers who have at least one other Time Warner Cable service. The service will be offered with Clearwire, which already sells wireless Internet connections in this market. The new service will offer speeds up to six gigabytes per second.
Time Warner also will roll out the 4G wireless network in the Triad and Charlotte regions on Dec. 1 and the company will provide customers who sign a two-year contract with a free wireless card. In the future, customers will be able to program a DVR at home from a mobile device and watch video on smart phones.
Other providers, including Verizon and AT&T, also are marketing faster wireless Internet service. And those rivals are selling digital TV to compete directly with Time Warner.
Time Warner has more than 800,000 customers from the Raleigh area to the coast.
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