There is increased activity between wireless, wireline, and cable companies. 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. 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.