Wireless Phone Services Announced in New York.

On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts disclosed that, his company’s wireless play was finally ready for prime time—almost. The new service will launch “somewhere in the middle of next year, maybe a little sooner, but not at the beginning of next year,” Roberts said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor conference in New York on Tuesday.

Roberts revealed that the Comcast "network" will launch by mid-2017 and put a large focus on Wi-Fi hotspots — similar to Google's Project Fi. When away from Wi-Fi connections, Comcast's service will run on the Verizon Wireless network.

Roberts didn’t reveal any more details about this service during his talk at the investors conference, so it’s unclear right now what this service is going to be called, precisely when it’s going to arrive, and how much Comcast is going to charge for it.

Comcast is going to rely upon its massive network of more than 14 million Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots across the United States. These includes hotspots in public locations such as coffee shops as well as those in customer homes which feature an optional “guest mode” for sharing the internet connection with other people.