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Timeline - Sprint's Ill-fated Pivot

By mike
Created Apr 24 2008 - 10:15am

Sprint's Pivot has had a long history of troubles. Below is a timeline of this ill-fated joint venture between the cable companies and a wireless carrier:

Nov. 1, 2005 - Four cable companies team with Sprint in $200M JV [1]

Nov. 13, 2006 - Sprint-Cable JV to launch Wireless [2]

Feb. 22, 2007 - Sprint-Cable JV Quietly Making Strides Toward Quad-play [3]

April 3, 2007 - FCC privacy rules could block Sprint's Pivot [4]

April 15, 2007 - Comcast CEO on killer apps for Pivot [5]

April 30, 2007 - Time Warner announces Pivot details [6]

May 18, 2007 - Waiting for Pivot's Mobile DVR [7]

June 14, 2007 - Sprint may spin off WiMAX unit [8]

Aug. 2, 2007 - Sprint drops out of SpectrumCo cable consortium [9]

Nov. 2, 2007 - Sprint's about-face on Pivot [10]

Nov. 8, 2007 - Time Warner says Pivot demand "tepid" [11]

Nov. 9, 2007 - Sprint, Clearwire cancel WiMAX pairing, rethinks Pivot [12]

Nov. 15, 2007 - Report: Pivot's cable companies to go it alone [13]

Dec. 4, 2007 - Cox, Google to bid; Time Warner, Comcast won't [14]

Mar. 28, 2008 - Cable's love affair with wireless [15]


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