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join:2004-06-03
Kihei, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| ??? The Boston Globe article says:
The battle is largely over video services. Several major telecom companies are working on ways to deliver broadcast-quality television over the Internet. Currently, online video can be slow to download and choppy to watch, even with higher-speed Internet services.
The proposal supported by AT&T and BellSouth would allow telecommunications carriers to offer their own advanced Internet video services to their customers, while rival firms' online video offerings would be transmitted at lower speed and with poorer image quality.
AT&T and other telecoms want to charge consumers a premium fee to connect to the higher-speed Internet. The companies could also charge websites a premium to offer their video to consumers on the higher-speed Internet. That could mean that a company like Yahoo might have to pay AT&T to send high-quality video to AT&T subscribers. IOW, this is all to do with the extra capacity that'll have to be put in place to accomodate IPTV... it has nothing to do with anything else... like search engines, etc. The only effect it will have on us is, if our ISP offers IPTV, a competitor's pricing will just have to reflect a tariff of some sort.
I don't view this as any different than getting DSL from a 3rd party. The costs for the line still has to be paid to whoever owns the equipment at the CO. Why should IPTV be any different? |
