Oh, don't suggest that! Every time someone suggests WISPA do some collective bargaining, someone cries that isn't what WISPA does... but no valid reason why it can't. Yes, I cry every time that WISPA should.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Tim Sylvester" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 7:24 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] here it come$ > I'm confused by this message. Are you saying you just heard of ESPN360? It > has been around since 2007. > > How much do you think big bad ESPN charges for ESPN360? I have seen > estimates between $0.05/sub/month to $0.25/sub/month. As far as I can > tell, > any ISP can contact ESPN and sign-up to offer ESPN360 to their > subscribers. > Here's a link to the current list of ISPs offering ESPN360: > http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/affList. The list of providers ranges > from ATT and Verizon each with over 10M subs. Down to the Spencer Iowa > Municipal Utilities and Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone, each with a > few > thousand subs. > > The list includes cable, DSL and FTTH ISPs. The only thing that might > prevent a WISP from offering ESPN360 is bandwidth. > > ESPN360 is just an add-on service that an ISP can bundle with their > service > offerings to customers. Think of it like offering e-mail accounts or web > sites. In the mid 90s, ISPs had to pay to provide a TCP/IP stack and a web > browser to their customers. > > If the WISPA members think ESPN360 would be a useful to offer their > customers, have someone contact ESPN to see if you can negotiate an > ESPN360 > contract for all WISPA members. > > Tim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of RickG >> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:57 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] here it come$ >> >> The television content providers are going to bill ISP's? >> Try using ESPN Live 360 and see what it tells you. >> -RickG >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> 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/
