[opendtv] Re: B&C: Microsoft Claims Rural White Spaces Plan Could Cost Less Than $12 Billion
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 01:16:59 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
So when I told you that broadcasters might choose to deploy
technologies in their spectrum that will allow them to remain
competitive, I was not limiting this to the voluntary ATSC 3.0
standards.
Now you're contradicting yourself. This is what you wrote, which is why I took
you to task:
https://www.freelists.org/post/opendtv/BC-Microsoft-Claims-Rural-White-Spaces-Plan-Could-Cost-Less-Than-12-Billion,1
Bottom line, in five years there could be three industries
competing to offer low power TV and broadband in rural markets.
Broadcasters using ATSC 3.0
Telcos using various cellular and OFDM Broadcast technologies
And companies using the white space spectrum
And having looked through the current list of ATSC 3.0 standards, I saw no
evidence that this was in the works. Doesn't mean it's totally out of the
question, so that's why I was looking for you to provide justification, which
you do not have. In spite of (deliberately?) vague allusions to interactive
functions, from very early on in ATSC 3.0 development, which the innocent and
trade scribes assumed meant interaction over the broadcast channel, nothing
I've read suggests that ATSC 3.0 would become a broadband service provider
standard.
And then there is the distinct reality that the ATSC could
incorporate additional capabilities, as they did with the ATSC
1.0 standard.
At the time that A/90 was first published, it became abundantly clear what new
functions the ATSC *could be* supporting in the future, and on numerous
occasions I mentioned that (with your consistent disagreement, of course,
because it didn't support your "point solution" narrative). This time around,
the ATSC has been much faster in writing other supporting standards, and the
picture they paint is not one along the lines that you suggested. Could be a
best kept secret, we just don't know.
All you needed to say was that no, you had no justification for your comment
above. It was pure conjecture.
Bert
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