fyi, we just switched over a fios customer onto our trango 900 mhz system. they were so pissed at the up/down constant thrashing of their "high speed" fios service... quite happy with us now :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:10 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV I can say that I have always been a gadget freak. I almost always have the newest toys (cell phones, laptops, two-way radios, etc.) and I usually play with them for a few months, and then put them on ebay. I am a technology freak. I love new things (like our newest toy, an 18ghz Dragonwave AirPair100). Call me what you will, but I like new technology. However, I can also tell you that I have a regular POTS line at home (pay $35/mo for all features like vmail, call waiting, etc.) and I also have DISH network at home. I would never consider using an internet connection for TV... EVER. VoIP works for some people (I can always tell when I'm talking to someone on a VoIP phone), but I can never see using my internet connection for TV... here are a few reasons: (1) The internet is very unstable. When people want to watch TV, they don't want excuses on why it's not working. Imagine the calls you would get when a person's internet, telephone and TV are all down because one of their PC's is infected with the latest virus or spyware. (2) I like having things seperate. Seperate bills is a slight issue, but with automatic billing now, it all comes out of the checking account automatically anyway. (3) I'm not tied to a single provider. If I want to switch my phone service or TV service to something different, I can. (4) With the free DVR's and 4 rooms hooked up for free from DISH and only $29.99 per month for 60+ channels, who is going to compete with that? How can anyone provide a sustained 4-6Mbps for up to 4 TV's to _every_ subscriber across their network (including the cableco or telco's). Even in a small town (say 5,000 population), if the cable company had 500 customers, that would be up to 1Gbps of bandwidth needed (50% utilization of the 500 subs). There is nobody that can support that right now... or even 3-5 years from now. Before everyone gets too excited about IPTV, we need to look at reality. Sure companies like Verizon are doing fiber to the house... we will never compete with that... but why try? We will never dominate our region... instead, we are happy to pick up the customers that are unhappy with the telco or cableco or other wireless provider and want internet that just works. That's what we do. Internet. That works. Travis Microserv Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > sigh > > having no viable options vs. having one's head buried in the sand are > two totally different things. > > Boy I'm getting tired of being insulted for having a successful business! > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:08 PM > Subject: [WISPA] For George - just because you were thinking of me. > > >> All, >> >> Below is Ken's latest Blog post, still a work in progress, since >> George brought it up he felt it was appropriate. >> >> Regards, >> Dawn DiPietro >> >> According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more >> than >> 4 hours of TV each day. >> http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html >> >> Now, I would be the first to admit that there is an unknown >> percentage of >> time that the TV is on but not being watched in any given family but >> even >> if we assume that percentage is close to 50% (which I would guess is >> high) >> we can see that from the estimated five minutes per day the average >> American spent watching internet video (according to the comScore study) >> we could very well see a jump of some nearly 50 times that amount once a >> full palette of subject matter is presented on the Internet for >> viewing on >> demand. >> http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1264 >> >> And which of society's groups of will be eager to take advantage of free >> Video On Demand? Why the people who can't afford to pay for these high >> dollar services or would prefer not to. >> >> The next question is, what kind of bandwidth will it take to deliver VoD >> per user? Let me qualify this question by laying some of the assumptions >> that will need to be addressed in this answer. >> >> First off, on the average Friday night, at 6:00PM, more than 50% of >> American households have more than one TV set on (read as more than one >> continuous video stream playing) and I would suggest this trend will >> continue, if not increase as the net-centric services improve. >> >> Secondly, if we are talking about IPTV bandwidth needs, we need to >> forecast that a 1.25Mbps sustained stream is necessary for one >> stream. If >> we move into the realm of high definition we are now looking at a >> rate of >> 14Mbps (uncompressed) with perhaps a chance of delivering reasonable >> quality using a 4Mbps sustained stream - per video is use. That does not >> take into account any bandwidth for telephone or Internet access, should >> these services be required. >> >> What we can see is that any network that is only capable of >> delivering sub >> 1Mbps speeds (as measured in real throughput) is now obsolete - we >> simply >> refuse to admit it yet. >> >> Of course, we can still continue to bury our heads in the sand and wait >> for the inevitable crisis. >> >> >> >> -- >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
