Everything that can or will communicate will end up on broadband. The convergence of all media, voice or video or just data, into one data stream over the internet is happening. The price we pay for access is not going down but everyone is migrating over to this one pipe causing more congestion than flu season at the old folks home. I was wondering though, broadcast TV lost a massive share when cable became mainstream and many networks receive payment from the cable companies to carry their channels so would these companies really give up that revenue by going to delivery via internet or does anyone see them all eventually holding ISP's hostage for cash, sort of along the lines of the ESPN site forcing ISP's to pay for their customers to access the ESPN video?
We provide the vehicle for the delivery of their pay-per-use content. Personally, I would like to see any pay-per-use internet service have to chip in with some sort of transport fee or tax or whatever that would go directly towards the providers as a whole, spread out evenly, to help cover the cost of them making their profit. We charge business customers more than residential because they use it to make cash and they tax the system more (debatable since P2P is now king) and I see this as no different. I see it coming, am I crazy in this? Just a thought bouncing inside my head. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:12 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apple & Disney TV? Highly doubtful that it'll happen, but it would probably be more efficient if we took back all broadcast spectrum and used it for FWBIA - or whatever the latest term is - and transported video on demand over it. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Cliff Leboeuf" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:35 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] Apple & Disney TV? > Can Steve Jobs unplug cable TV? > > http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/22/can-steve-jobs-un > plug-cable-tv/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > 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/
