[opendtv] Re: Competing TVE sites
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:59:11 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Almost everyone has one geo limited local MVPD service;
And you consider 1 to be good competition? Your online viewing should be
dictated by the agreements made by just one middleman, even though you're using
an unwalled Internet?
> No. These services are not geographically constrained,
> other than the area a geo-synchronous satellite can cover.
So I take that as a yes. DBS is also geographically constrained. We used to
live in a condo facing East. No DBS options of any kind there, Craig, dictated
by geography. Oh well.
> Fancy that - even your geographically neutral Internet
> services ultimately will require geographic replication of
> their infrastructure to provide a high quality of service...
Thank goodness, then, they are going to be Title II. Don't get lost in your
rhetoric, Craig. The objection to walled gardens is the gatekeeper aspect. If
an inevitable "natural" gatekeeper is strictly neutral, no problem.
Bert
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