Cox Communications America's third largest Cable Company

Cox Communications, America's third largest cable company, says it will shut down the wireless network has started construction. The network is yet another false start for the cable company in the wireless world. Cox built and sold a wireless network in `90-ies. Then he started and folded a wireless consortium with Sprint Nextel Corp. and other cable companies in the last decade. In November last year, Cox using Sprint network to run the service in Oklahoma City, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Omaha, Nebraska, and Orange County, California. It says it will continue that arrangement, sale and service of mobile phones. Cox has spent 550 million U.S. dollars to buy wireless spectrum rights to its own network, and perhaps hundreds of millions more to build it out. Cox is privately held and headquartered in Atlanta.