Sprint and Cox Communications have a new deal that gives Sprint access to Cox’s network to support Sprint’s small cell deployments. That deal follows a decade after cable operators began upgrading their networks to support such applications, among others.
Among the foreseen advantages of DOCSIS cable modem networks was the ability to support retail and wholesale wireless backhaul (small cells, especially) opportunities.
The thinking has been that cable’s ubiquitous broadband network, while primarily designed to support retail internet access services, also would provide the foundation for internal wireless and mobile efforts (public hotspots and indoor Wi-Fi).
At the same time, cable industry executives have believed their networks also would be valuable for small cell backhaul. While it has been less likely that Verizon or AT&T would be buyers of wholesale backhaul, Sprint and T-Mobile US--lacking their own fixed networks--have been likely customers.
That now is happening. Sprint has a backhaul deal with Altice as well. 
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