Verizon is building their fiber infrastructure BIG TIME in the LA area.
Everything in the entire Nielsen 'LA DMA' (read that - expanded LA
market) seems to have the streets dug up in the last 4 to 5 years.
Verizon has contacted all the TV stations about carrying their signal on
the Verizon 'cable system' they are looking to deploy. There is a
diagonal sort of reference to the 'franchise agreements' in the
originally quoted article. 'Retransmission agreements' or 'must carry'
has to be determined on a station by station basis, and there is a whole
lot of FCC wrangling and haranguing going on. CLEARLY, this is Google's
fault, and they should pay for Verizon taking on the long-established
cable businesses.
A friend of mine has taken an interesting approach. He runs a wireless
ISP, and found a ton of bandwidth in Ontario, CA. He has a fiber link
from Charter Cable running his traffic from Victorville down to Ontario.
All this costs him less than half of doing business with
Verizon/MCI/whatever. Everybody is eating everybody else's lunch, and
Verizon was the first to openly squeal like a pig. Count on lots of it,
if the companies don't buy each other out or go broke first.
Mike G
Engineering Project Manager - KHIZ-TV
Dennis Bagley wrote:
All these telcos have at their heart copper wire and microwave relay
stations that
were paid for 30 years ago! The newer equipment has been in the
process of being
installed only over the past 10-15 years. (Most of it involves
integrated circuit technology that costs
1-3% of the old mechanical switches and such. Or fiber optics that
deliver a 1000 times more bang for the buck).
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