[opendtv] Re: IEEE Ericsson article on use of LTE for TV

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:07:35 -0400

At 6:37 PM -0500 6/19/12, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Because it doesn't work for their business model. It's not a technical problem. There are different standards for the same reason that cable companies use different standards. Deliberate incompatibility. If they didn't want deliberate incompatibility, they could achieve compatibility. 

Cable companies use different standards...

REALLY?

In most markets the cable system is a monopoly. But you can get a DBS service.

All this will be irrelevant after the shift to LTE.




 And Apple has been trying to convince carriers to move to an embedded
 programmable SIM, which was approved by the GSMA in 2010.



 But the European carriers are not happy.
Thank you. So you have shown that even in Europe, even if to a lesser degree, the cell phone manufacturers are at the mercy of the cell providers. This is CERTAINLY true in the US.
NO. In Europe there is one standard and you can buy SIM cards from any carrier if you pay for an unlocked phone. You can buy unlocked phones in the U.S. but they only work on one of the RF standards.
For location based services. Triangulation is very inaccurate, and doesn't work at all if you are out of range of at least 2 (ambiguous location) or 3 cell towers. Plus, the GPS receiver may become a government mandate, for 911 calls. But that's not even the point. The whole point is, IF cell providers want to allow a certain functionality, the cell phone manufacturers CAN do so.
The telcos are now at the mercy of the device manufacturers. Do you think they ALL WANT to pay the premium that Apple charges for an iPhone - a device for which Apple determines the functionality? 

No.

THEY NEED TO, or risk losing subscribers to the carriers that deal with Apple.
They get better deals on Android phones, but they do not dictate what these phones can do. Unfortunately, even Google does not have the power to control their own software platform - the device manufacturers are largely responsible for the fragmentation of the Android market.
And you need 12 different organizations to charge content owners for the use of a single transmission infrastructure? How does that business model work, Craig?
If all twelve broadcasters in the DC market choose not to sell their spectrum, they will still have control of 1/12th of the bandwidth in the pooled spectrum. If a few choose to sell their spectrum they can negotiate with the rest for carriage. 

This is just a shift in the business model.

Admittedly a big shift, but a far better outcome then withering into oblivion.

Regards
Craig


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