[opendtv] Spectrum is too valuable

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 02:43:36 +0000

Craig wrote:

Obviously the cabled MVPDs have plenty of capacity to deliver both
linear TV and broadband.

Not true, and that's the whole point. Spectrum is "too valuable" to be wasted
on linear-broadcast streams, as you have said many times yourself, and this
applies to the cabled networks too.

When you make this "too valuable" claim, it is to justify grabbing
publically-owned spectrum, used for FOTA TV, and handing it to private
companies. (Like cordoning off public beaches and handing the real estate to
hotel chains.)

So okay, there is some logic to this, but exactly the same rationale applies to
the cabled walled gardens themselves. If all of the spectrum now dedicated to
broadcast MPEG-2 TS linear streams, in a cable company's local PON, were
reassigned to DOCSIS service, how many extra homes could be fed with 20 Mb/s
downstream traffic, without changing the structure of that PON? That's the
issue.

Bert



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