[opendtv] Re: New Thread: What becomes of Legacy Analog Equipment

The avenues for Richard are petition for declaratory ruling, petition for
review, or petition for rulemaking.  In my examination, I couldn?t see how
the staff had the delegated authority to interpret 73.624, or ?rule? in the
way they did.  Also, oral opinions of the Commission staff are worth less
than a bucket of warm spit.  Without the flourishes, this is what I told
Richard.

 

Sure, Verizon is trying to sign up people, but they get no takers because
1)people don?t want to buy the phones and 2) they think the service should
be free.  The Verizon service model isn?t sustainable, and this is what has
STOPPED carrier interest around the globe.

 

I repeat: you set the bar low for the things you favor, and you set the bar
high for the things you don?t favor.

 

John Willkie

 

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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:27 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: New Thread: What becomes of Legacy Analog Equipment

 

 

On Dec 1, 2007 7:20 PM, John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The FCC can't reject interference studies, unless the methodology is bad.
Apparently, you don't understand the FCC, or somebody is looking for the FCC
to say no.

 

Not a matter of me understanding the FCC. It is what Richard understands
after his visit to the FCC. They will not let him use FM on his stations
based on his interference studies. 

If you think that MediaFlo is doing serious business, I wonder what you are
smoking.  They have only one customer, with a second on the way.  Those
customers aren't doing any business to speak of.  This isn't sustainable.
Also, they ARE NOT GOING TO DEPLOY THEMSELVES in other countries.  I
actually keep close contact with the mobile TV content and infrastructure
markets, and the last I checked, the vendors of MediaFlo infrastructure
off-shore have no sales and no prospects, and only a few looky-loos.

I don't think I said MediaFlo was doing serious business. I doubt if they
are. I do think they plan on doing so though. 

 

Other than carriers, who are talking about testing, but beyond that, nobody
sees a market for mobile phone carriers to deploy mobile tv infrastructures.


You can buy MediaFlo in NYC today from Verizon. If that is a test OK but
they are not talking test when you question them, they are asking you to
sign up for the service. 

 

The situation vis-à-vis broadcasting is quite different; they already have
the content, they probably won't have to pay more to deploy content into the
mobile marketplace, and if they can deploy with their existing transmission
plants, there will be an interesting play.

 

Dealing with change and risk and the risk of change is what it's all about.
You've got to raise table stakes, but you apparently missed your chance.  I
hope you've made a good rate of return on the $1,000 you 'saved.'

Again there was no way to know that the investment of $1000 would mean
anything. There was no way to know that having made the $1000 deposit, not
investment, would have allowed one to increase that deposit to any amount
the next week. That was a decision the FCC made after the deadline. In the
second auction we did make a small investment that will do well but that is
not what we proposed to do. 

Bob Miller 

 

John Willkie

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