[opendtv] Re: Dish offer for Sprint
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:55:10 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> For what it is worth, the AT&T LTE service that was just
> launched here in Gainesville is MUCH faster than my AT&T DSL
> service. IF local broadcast is devalued by the networks
> several things can happen:
Not sure what you're responding to. The article was about DBS broadcast to
homes, and Dish making deals with Sprint for Internet distribution. What I
responded with was that the DBS broadcast portion of that model was essentially
becoming unnecessary, because it competes with cabled or wireless broadband
that is becoming capable of offering even more choice.
> If # 3 happens, the only viable path for existing broadcasters
> will be to move to LTE broadcast
Even that doesn't make a lot of sense. The content owners, whoever they are
(they could actually be also local broadcasters of today), can more easily put
their content on any of the wired and wireless ISP networks.
We've been through all of this already. The more these ISP networks increase in
speed, the less of an impact the additional TV content makes. Perhaps the role
of the local broadcaster will be run the mirrored servers that make their
content available on the various ISP networks.
But either way, the satellite MVPD was what the article was addressing, not the
local broadcasters.
Bert
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