[opendtv] Re: Bundling and competition
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:20:31 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> Still now, wireless allows multiple different media to compete in a
>> way that wired media cannot. So when you can add wireless telephony
>> to the mix, that allows multiple telephone services to compete
>> everywhere.
>
> I can't believe you said that.
>
> Your stated vision of the future of the TV in your family room is one
> that is made possible by a WIRE that delivers streams of broadband
> data to your TV
Uuuuh, hardly.
All I need for my (fixed) TV is a broadband connection to the Internet. The
totally orthogonal point being, how best to get a competitive broadband
connection? Is it best wired or is it best wireless?
Clearly, whether mobile or fixed, the most competitive solutions are always the
ones that don't tie you to that monoplistic infrastructure! That's one of my
main points to Prof Negroponti. The other being, it was all a matter of
technological innovations, not mere accidents.
And a side point is, the contribution of the wireless aspect of RF comm
channels used to be a lot higher than it is now. In most cases now, aside from
satcomm, the wireless contribution is only for that last-mile, or even
last-few-feet link. All of the heavy lifting is done by the backhaul networks,
which tend to be fiber. So it's really incorrect to say that even mobile
solutions, e.g. cellular, are "wireless." Cellular is nothing without the
backhaul network, and that ain't predominantly wireless by any means.
> The only argument left, is whether we will need ANY wires, if spectrum
> is used in an optimal manner in the future.
Yeah, but mostly that's what one calls "arm waving." Ideally, everything,
including power distribution, would be wireless. I object to these vague
"optimal manner" allusions, which get thrown about but add little. You mean
"optimal," or you mean "imaginary"?
> You did it again. OTA TV is not even trying to compete. It is there
> primarily to guarantee that lucrative second revenue stream from the
> MVPDs.
You're confusing "business models" with technology. OTA TV has multiple
different TV networks/station groups all using their own distribution medium,
and yet all capable of deploying their signal to the same locations. Pretty
hard to get that kind of competitive environment with cable or even DBS. There
is no single entity that can keep a market hostage. E.g., EVEN IF OTA TV were
available by payment, there would be no single MVPD capable of extracting those
higher monthly rates. Only if you set up OTA TV in an obtuse way would the
customers have to be dependent on just one organization.
Bert
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