Sprint expands on JV with Time Warner Cable

Sprint Nextel announced a major five-year agreement to expand on its joint venture with Time Warner Cable. The deal sees Sprint provisioning the cable MSO's "digital phone service" in an additional 14 service areas. The companies also claim that Time Warner will soon use Sprint Nextel's IP network to offer VoIP services across most of its footprint, an approximate 28 million homes. That expansion, however, will exclude Time Warner Cable's system in New Hampshire and Maine. Sprint currently services more than 1.2 million VoIP subscribers for cable companies and over the next year it expects to push that figure up to 2.5 million VoIP subscribers.

For more on Sprint's expanded deal with TW:
- take a look at this press release from Sprint