[opendtv] Re: Dish offer for Sprint
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:36:20 +0000
The article makes me think of the saying, "If you're a hammer, everything looks
like a nail."
From the Dish point of view, perhaps this broadcast-to-home, and
Sprint-dependent wireless unicast outside the home, makes sense. From a proper
ISP's point of view, it makes a lot less sense, especially if you look about 2
years down the road.
To reach homes, a wired broadband link, backed up by a modern core network, can
provide more than the one-way broadcast satellite. Remember that 400 Gb/s
Ethernet is in development now, for core networks, and 1 Tb/s is being promised
by 2015.
The satellite broadcast portion of DBS is competing against wired two-way
broadband Internet to homes. That's a tough battle to win. It will take full
cooperation from the content owners, to keep their stuff strictly out of the
Internet, to win that battle. But the young crowd ain't standing for those
tactics.
At least OTA has the potential to feed mobile devices.
Bert
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