There are two reasons for the numerous attempts by both Pacific Bell and SBC's failure to get into the video delivery business. 1. Management is dial tone oriented, and thus they are afraid to provide non-dial tone service because they might fail and loose their jobs 2. They have shareholders who are only interested in profit, so management is unwilling to spend the money to get into the video delivery business because of the cost which will affect the bottom line. Until RBOC management gets some intestinal fortitude, they will always be bungling a video delivery solution. They will wake up when the cable companies start getting aggressive on offering dial tone to their customers. Who knows, we may see the end of the RBOCs when that happens, and it will be their own fault. Ralph P. Manfredo President & CEO rmanfredo@xxxxxxxx ************************************************************************ BroadBand Networks Corporation 2530 Berryessa Road, No. 237 San Jose, CA 95132 Phone: 408.988.2060 Fax: 408.988.2188 www.bbnc.com Leaders in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video over ATM and IP Networks ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mitch Cardwell Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:38 PM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: SBC Joins the Convergence Crowd 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. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.