I see a video provider staying in the mix, but providing both traditional channels in a transition period that could be 10 - 15 years and onDemand content that greatly increases in use. This would "replace" DVRs because they could force you to watch commercials instead of letting you fast forward through them. These video providers will overwhelmingly be the ISP\voice provider for the location.
Until you're on the scale of Level3, AT&T, Verizon Business, Cogent, etc., you are not going to get a content provider to pay you. It just won't happen. All that I see happening in the next 5 - 10 years in this realm is that independent ISPs will have to build out either alone or in regional consortiums into the peering exchanges. Limelight's list is a good sampling: https://www.peeringdb.com/private/participant_view.php?id=4&peerParticipantsPrivatesPage=2 There's dark fiber available all over and WISPs will have to team up with other WISPs along those dark fiber routes to purchase some strands and light it themselves. It costs roughly $1M for 2 strands of dark fiber going 1k miles between major cities. You have to add the price of gear (depends on what you do), but how many independent ISPs do you think you pass between Chicago and Denver, New Orleans, New York City, or Ashburn? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:44 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apple & Disney TV? > 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! 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