Waste
@comcast.net | What a Waste
Internet is where it's at! If you do not offer it and only provide TV service you wont be around longer then ten years! |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ |  VOD over broadband to supplement sat TV
They just want some broadband capability not tied to a satellite. That way they can use Video on Demand capabilities just like their cable and telco competitors. |
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Edrick
Premium
join:2004-09-11
Orlando, FL
| One Way Communication
It's like TV from the 80s where you would have to call in to watch premium channels. I don't see mobile TV being that big without interactive services or some type of on-demand which can't be done with one way communication.
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana | Echostar / DishNetwork
Echostar bought the spectrum not DishNetwork. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | That's true, I believe the two companies separated- Echostar owning the satellites and other businesses, and DISH using the satellites to provide TV? |
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firephoto
KDE
Premium
join:2003-03-18 | Echostar is the hardware, Dish is the media provider. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | So let me get this straight...
The FCC reallocates the UHF TV band, moves television stations to below 700 MHz, and then Echostar bids on a part of it for...
...television.
What is wrong with this picture?
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Well, it was the FCC, not Echostar, that created a block useful only for one-way services... |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to RadioDoc
yeah I'm glad I'm not alone in being amused by that. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | reply to EPS
They are useful for more than just one-way depending on what you want to do. Don't blindly believe what pundits pund. I would imagine that someone could figure out something more useful to do with 6 MHz at 722 MHz than making it back into TV channel 56.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Hm, I don't know much about wireless broadcasting, I just made the assumption based on the fact that block E only held one block of spectrum, while all others included two... though I suppose Video on Demand would require at least some of that to be set aside for upstream, so they can tell what video it is you are demanding... |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to RadioDoc
Yea, "analysts" are mostly clueless; paid to say something about some company every once in awhile in order to churn the companies' stock, and generate commissions ofr their employers/clients.
Maybe Dish wants it for a return channel. They have plenty of downstream bandwidth. They could do one-way satellite broadband. Latency would be much improved compared with Wildblue and Direcway. |
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KA3SGM
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join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
clubs:
 ·Cricket Broadband
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Echostar to Rival Qualcomm's Media Flo???
They might use one-way spectrum to create a rival for Qualcomm's Media Flo delivery platform.
If you look at the current Media Flo design and market strategy:
»www.qualcomm.com/mediaflo/index.shtml
Here is where it gets interesting.
Verizon's VCAST Mobile TV service is delivered via Media Flo's One-Way broadcast system, not by their local cell sites.
A small request via the normal EVDO channel brings a large reply via the Media Flo network.
Other carriers wishing to provide the same wireless Video service at this point only have the Media Flo system as an option.
Echostar is in a perfect position to give Qualcomm a run for it's money by offering a similar service via their own Video Broadcast platform.
Conveniently enough as well, the Media Flo transmitter sites are all fed via satellite, something Echostar already has some orbital Real Estate waiting to be used for.
If there is significant demand for these types of services, Qualcomm might just find itself with a little bit of competition.
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anonomous
@comcast.net | They
could provide HSI with that bandwidth. Downstream data is provided from satellites, and upstream data is sent through the bandwidth they just bought. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Huh???
"The spectrum in question came from the "E" block, and is primarily useful for one-way transmissions, meaning obviously that broadband is out."
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no biggie there. those with hughes 'broadband' could argue what they get isn't broadband either.
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Doug135
join:2008-01-12
Laredo, TX
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
| That's true, its no where near what the FCC used to call broadband (200kbps) nor what they define it now (768kbps). I bet I would burn through the FAP in about 2 hours. But with them using it for TV doesn't make much sense when not that many Americans are interested in mobile TV. I know I'm not. I can wait till I get home to watch TV. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to Edrick
Re: One Way Communication
said by Edrick  :It's like TV from the 80s where you would have to call in to watch premium channels. I don't see mobile TV being that big without interactive services or some type of on-demand which can't be done with one way communication. The communication is done via your settop box, which either can phone in modem style, or it can use your broadband connection to report back to homebase, and then the requested program can be broadcast to you.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to digiblur
Re: Echostar / DishNetwork
They are the same company, just two divisions. |
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macaholic
Premium
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY
1 edit | reply to RadioDoc
Re: So let me get this straight...
perhaps an effort to promote an infant technology that has promise with some chance for refinement..
edit: and hopefully not crappy small tube tv..... bleeeh.
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| reply to KrK
Re: Echostar / DishNetwork
said by KrK :They are the same company, just two divisions. Negative. Two separate stock symbols = two companies. DishNetwork even leases satellite space from Echostar.
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