I am all too aware of the weakness of wireless networks in regards to streaming of video.
That said, I cannot see how over the top video is a bad thing for independent ISPs, even if wireless technology has to make some progress to handle it. It removes triple play as a competitive advantage for your competitors and hurts them a LOT more than it costs the independent ISPs. If anything, independent ISPs (especially wireline independent ISPs) should be advertising "Internet access, includes 10 million channels for FREE" and get people to shift the $1,500-$2,000 a year that they are spending on triple play packages over your way. -Clint Ricker On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, RickG <[email protected]> wrote: > This is imminent. The questions is: whose network? -RickG > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Robert West <[email protected]> > wrote: > > One thing you can bank on, it WILL take hold. > > > > The need for more Bandwidth won't be stopped anytime soon, I believe. > > Eventually most if not all communications will run over the same network, > > which if you think about it, all the communications out there seem to > touch > > the internet at least in part. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Clint Ricker > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:21 AM > > To: WISPA General List > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality > > > > For the mainstream ISPs (the big RBOCs and MSOs), their bandwidth costs > are > > very, very low and are a small fraction of their overall costs. However, > > that statement does ignore the costs of perpetually upgrading their > network > > to handle larger volumes of bandwidth. From a cost perspective, that is > the > > main motivation for the big players to shape traffic. However, even that > is > > small compared to the potential loss of revenue if "over the top" video > > takes hold. > > > > -Clint > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > It's back.... > >> > > >> > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552503,00.html?test=latestnews > >> > >> I am just waiting for them to say bitcaps are a no no. When you think > >> about it with a bit cap you cannot really use the Internet to > >> completely replace the catv or dish service. Some consumers I am sure > >> are going to say that's not fair and some clueless law makers will > >> likely believe them. > >> > >> I have already heard some 'expert' IT people on blogs brag that > >> bandwidth costs ISP's virtually nothing and the only reason for > >> bitcaps is to prevent competing video services from taking market > >> share. > >> > >> Matt > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! > >> http://signup.wispa.org/ > >> > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > >> > >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >> > >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >> > >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > >> > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
