[opendtv] Re: Mobile Services and Cable TV Are Unexpected Allies
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:03:47 -0500
Richard Ramsden wrote
> The reason cable companies have wireless spectrum to trade to Verizon
> is they wanted to have the capability to provide to their customers
> seamless coverage. They bought spectrum. They paid real money for it.
> The belief that they could pull it off was probably just to get a
> bargaining position.
But that's really the point, isn't it. It would be one thing if the cable
companies wanted to expand into becoming competing cell service providers. But
the FCC would be creating an unnecessary and artificial monopoly, if it allowed
this sort of collusion to be created. The worst of both worlds:
No extra competing cell service, and simultaneously
No extra competing MVPD.
What a great deal!
> Seamless coverage, cable broadband at home with bandwidth that at any
> point in time will never be matched by wireless.
And as engineers, we know there's no need to pretend that this Verizon-MVPD
collusion is required, for seamless cable and wireless service. We have that
seamlessness already! So, people, let's scream to the FCC to not be hoodwinked
by such silly pretense by the technically-challenged. As long as the MVPD
provides their content over the Internet, as they already do, with access
control for subscribers if they wish, the seamless service is available.
> A single contract. One bill.
The article was not clear on this point. They said that consumers get sticker
shock when they see the entire service added up in one bill. So even that
becomes a weak excuse for allowing collusion. Perhaps an independent
bill-paying service can offer the single-bill advantage.
Bert
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