[Reuters reports Time Warner talking to Sprint about becoming MVNO. This puts them in line to be the fist major US cable company to offer cell-phone service along with cable television, high-speed Internet, and landline phone service.]

By Kenneth Li, New York -- "Adding wireless services as part of cable's offerings bundle will help it distinguish its services from rival telephone companies, which are vying to break into the video services market, analysts have said.

"We are going to see most of the cable companies start to sell wireless services in 2005, but they will resell an existing provider not install their own networks," said Jeff Kagan, an independent telecommunications industry analyst."

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