[opendtv] Re: B&C: LPTVs Pitch FCC's O'Rielly on Repack Challenges, Opportunities
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:58:08 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Then why did you find this aspect of the article "interesting."
For a couple of reasons. First, I had to read it twice, to understand who was
saying what. My first assumption was that LPTV stations would be bitching
loudly, about the repacking causing them to become non-viable. Instead, they
essentially are saying, we know we are non-viable already, as TV stations. So
we give up, but maybe we can retain our spectrum if we completely change our
purpose in life.
The other reason it's interesting is to find out what they are actually
suggesting. I mean, in credible detail, not just BS arm waving.
The reason I responded to your post about this article was to get
you to explain why it is interesting and potentially useful in
spectrum you believe to be useless for broadband.
You did a GREAT JOB!
As always, Craig, you completely missed it. If you had come back with some
half-way cogent ideas, that would have been one thing. But what I described was
something far from viable or useful. An aggregate of, at best, 40 Mb/s, and
that's downstream only, to a neighborhood, should strike you as inadequate.
When PONs provide similar neighborhoods with 1 Gb/s of aggregate capacity. Just
a few orders of magnitude of difference, Craig. Why quibble, right?
Do some simple arithmetic. I assumed you would have done so before responding
as you did. How many homes are within reach of these LPTV stations?
Bert
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