[opendtv] Re: SBC Joins the Convergence Crowd

  • From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:32:09 -0800

More serious than a predecessor (Pacific Bell) was vis a vis wireless cable
and hfc in the mid '1990's.  Many billions were put into those holes.

John Willkie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:40 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: SBC Joins the Convergence Crowd


> > Monday's announcement -- which follows SBC's November announcement
> > that it will be spending billions to build a fiber-optic network for
> > delivering TV signals to households
>
> How serious do they have to get?
>
> 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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