Comcast filed its bid for buying Time Warner Cable with the Federal Communications Commission this week, and outlined its arguments in a blog post as well. In part two of a long, hard look at Comcast's arguments, let's discuss the rivals the largest cable operator in the U.S. sees in wireless telecoms.

Read Part One of "Comcast's Competitors?": DSL and Google Fiber

Comcast Executive VP and Chief Diversity Officer for Public Policy, David L. Cohen, wrote a lengthy blog post explaining why the Comcast/TWC merger is necessary for its survival, will be beneficial for consumers, and, in general, is an all around good idea. In it, Cohen described what it saw as direct (healthy) competition all around the company, including from wireless telecoms.

More Competition - From 4G, Wireless Data

Wireless telecommunications were part of Comcast's argument that there's competition all around it, and will be even after it merges with the second largest cable provider in the nation.

Cohen writes, "wireless broadband is here today," and is "already a meaningful broadband alternative." He gives a helpful map of all the areas where the new Comcast/TWC behemoth will compete with one or more 4G wireless providers.

And as we've argued before, smartphones aren't practical "first screens." For example, for kids with only wireless access, doing homework on a smartphone is not as fast, fluid, or useful as using a computer with a wired connection. If you think smartphones suffice as your only portal to the internet, try doing a week's work without a computer or wired broadband connection.

But Comcast has a solution to the digital divide as well, and merging with TWC will only expand its program further, argues Comcast. More on that in Part 3.

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