Wow... that's good news... after reading PC Magazine's ISP comparison,
they made it sound like Verizon's fiber was the end all for every
customer they contacted. ;)
Travis
Microserv
Rick Smith wrote:
fyi, we just switched over a fios customer onto our trango 900 mhz system.
they were so pissed at the up/down constant thrashing of their "high speed"
fios service... quite happy with us now :)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:10 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV
I can say that I have always been a gadget freak. I almost always have
the newest toys (cell phones, laptops, two-way radios, etc.) and I
usually play with them for a few months, and then put them on ebay. I am
a technology freak. I love new things (like our newest toy, an 18ghz
Dragonwave AirPair100). Call me what you will, but I like new technology.
However, I can also tell you that I have a regular POTS line at home
(pay $35/mo for all features like vmail, call waiting, etc.) and I also
have DISH network at home. I would never consider using an internet
connection for TV... EVER. VoIP works for some people (I can always tell
when I'm talking to someone on a VoIP phone), but I can never see using
my internet connection for TV... here are a few reasons:
(1) The internet is very unstable. When people want to watch TV, they
don't want excuses on why it's not working. Imagine the calls you would
get when a person's internet, telephone and TV are all down because one
of their PC's is infected with the latest virus or spyware.
(2) I like having things seperate. Seperate bills is a slight issue, but
with automatic billing now, it all comes out of the checking account
automatically anyway.
(3) I'm not tied to a single provider. If I want to switch my phone
service or TV service to something different, I can.
(4) With the free DVR's and 4 rooms hooked up for free from DISH and
only $29.99 per month for 60+ channels, who is going to compete with
that? How can anyone provide a sustained 4-6Mbps for up to 4 TV's to
_every_ subscriber across their network (including the cableco or
telco's). Even in a small town (say 5,000 population), if the cable
company had 500 customers, that would be up to 1Gbps of bandwidth needed
(50% utilization of the 500 subs). There is nobody that can support that
right now... or even 3-5 years from now.
Before everyone gets too excited about IPTV, we need to look at reality.
Sure companies like Verizon are doing fiber to the house... we will
never compete with that... but why try? We will never dominate our
region... instead, we are happy to pick up the customers that are
unhappy with the telco or cableco or other wireless provider and want
internet that just works. That's what we do. Internet. That works.
Travis
Microserv
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
sigh
having no viable options vs. having one's head buried in the sand are
two totally different things.
Boy I'm getting tired of being insulted for having a successful business!
marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: [WISPA] For George - just because you were thinking of me.
All,
Below is Ken's latest Blog post, still a work in progress, since
George brought it up he felt it was appropriate.
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more
than
4 hours of TV each day.
http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html
Now, I would be the first to admit that there is an unknown
percentage of
time that the TV is on but not being watched in any given family but
even
if we assume that percentage is close to 50% (which I would guess is
high)
we can see that from the estimated five minutes per day the average
American spent watching internet video (according to the comScore study)
we could very well see a jump of some nearly 50 times that amount once a
full palette of subject matter is presented on the Internet for
viewing on
demand.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1264
And which of society's groups of will be eager to take advantage of free
Video On Demand? Why the people who can't afford to pay for these high
dollar services or would prefer not to.
The next question is, what kind of bandwidth will it take to deliver VoD
per user? Let me qualify this question by laying some of the assumptions
that will need to be addressed in this answer.
First off, on the average Friday night, at 6:00PM, more than 50% of
American households have more than one TV set on (read as more than one
continuous video stream playing) and I would suggest this trend will
continue, if not increase as the net-centric services improve.
Secondly, if we are talking about IPTV bandwidth needs, we need to
forecast that a 1.25Mbps sustained stream is necessary for one
stream. If
we move into the realm of high definition we are now looking at a
rate of
14Mbps (uncompressed) with perhaps a chance of delivering reasonable
quality using a 4Mbps sustained stream - per video is use. That does not
take into account any bandwidth for telephone or Internet access, should
these services be required.
What we can see is that any network that is only capable of
delivering sub
1Mbps speeds (as measured in real throughput) is now obsolete - we
simply
refuse to admit it yet.
Of course, we can still continue to bury our heads in the sand and wait
for the inevitable crisis.
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