[opendtv] Re: Google Fiber and Verizon FiOS
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 01:39:21 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Time will tell when the need is eliminated.
The need has been eliminated, except in those rural areas that still have no
broadband. The technology now exists, Craig. Whether some people continue on
with the legacy service over legacy technology, just as a matter of momentum,
does not translate to "the need has not been eliminated."
The telcos have managed to stretch out "End Of Life" for their
twisted pair networks, despite the fact that the new wireless telco
services offer MANY advantages over POTS.
POTS? POTS is a service, Craig, not a medium. The twisted pair lines are only
the medium. I don't know what the stats say, but my guess is that far more
twisted pair lines are now repurposed for DSL use, than just being used for
POTS. So, the proper comparison would be between using twisted pair for
broadband and using coax cable for broadband, both having been repurposed from
the original service they carried. And wired broadband is still very different
from wireless broadband, in the pricing structure. It doesn't make a lot of
sense to compare twisted pair with telco wireless. Not yet, anyway.
Not really. According to the FCC, 10% of U.S. homes do not have
access to 25/3
You don't need anywhere close to 25 Mb/s, for streaming media. There are still
households with no form of broadband, for sure, but using 25 Mb/s as a minimum
is not credible.
There is certainly ongoing demand for the most popular live
linear networks;
Dwindling demand, mostly sports, and irrelevant to this discussion. Linear does
not require walled gardens or monopolistic head-ends. Linear can be achieved
with streaming too.
It is highly likely that the next evolutionary step is to
replace the local MVPD head ends with edge servers that offload
traffic from the national MVPD servers operated by the content
owners through joint ventures like Hulu.
And this was YOUR argument, Craig? Since when? I've said that MVPDs themselves
could become OTT sites, but of course, there's no reason to limit themselves to
only their own infrastructure, as you do. They can locate their own mirrored
servers anywhere they need, they can outsource that to CDNs. They can compete
against, or cooperate with, other OTT services. Or they can just decide to be
the neutral pipe, and not worry about distributing content, acquiring rights to
content, and all the rest.
So essentially nothing changes, as these natural monopolies have
always been neutral with respect to Internet service.
That's funny. Nothing changes, says Craig. For one thing, minor point, the
MVPDs were never required to be neutral with respect to Internet service, until
just recently. More importantly, their infrastructure will gradually become
neutral for all services it carries, as opposed to being neutral for a very
small fraction of its total capacity.
That's the broadband medium aspect of the change. As to the TV content
distribution aspect, no local content distribution monopoly. How can you say
"essentially nothing changes"? The local monopoly remaining is the broadband
service aspect, but now mandated to be neutral.
Bert
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