[opendtv] Re: SBC Joins the Convergence Crowd

  • From: Mitch Cardwell <mitchrc@xxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:38:12 -0800

On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Kon Wilms wrote:
>>
>
> How serious do they have to get?
>

They need to get into the cable TV business and deliver more than the 
cable and sat companies. I am down to one phone line only because I 
have a burglar alarm and TiVo. Once that line is gone, I will probably 
never consider telco service again. SBC and it's predecessor Pacific 
Bell have started and stopped, by my count, video service at least 
three times and is now on it's second satellite "bundle" deal after 
it's first one with DirecTV flopped. They have wasted a decade or more 
and now they're losing dial tone customers left and right that will 
never come back.

Mitch


> I agree on the STB though.. seems kinda half-assed to me, in the
> ever-failing 'you don't need a real tv, you can use the internet
> instead' realm.
>
> Cheers
> Kon
>
>> This stuff is just all doomed to fail. Until SBC, and all the other
>> telcos for that matter, get serious about delivering video into the
>> household, these half steps are just going to not do the trick.
>
>
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