Actually, yes, this is the first I've heard about it. Obviously, I'm not a sports fan :) I've never had a customer request. I've have mixed feelings about this. Coming from the cable world, I was used to paying providers for channel content. The difference was, we didnt have to pay for bandwidth. Now, everyone wants to ride the bandwidth that we pay for to get to our customer. Maybe big bad ESPN should pay us? .05/sub/month doesnt sound like much but it adds up real fast. Worse yet, you still pay even though not everyone wants or needs it. Oh, and just what we need, another paper to fill out. I've been predicting since '97 that we'll have to charge the billing model to charge by the bit and that day is getting closer each time things like this occur. -RickG BTW: I did dial-up back in '93 and never paid for a TCP/IP stack or the Browser :)
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Tim Sylvester <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/
