| Too much segment Well, you can look at it two ways.. if there are two wires into the home: cable, and telco (via highspeed dsl or fiber) and satellite(broadband) is trailing way--way behind...
The theory is that a wimax or other wireless technology could somehow tip the balance of power towards wireless. Now this brings up a whole host of issues.
Are direct-tv and dishnetwork(echostar) looking to get into voip or other 'service value-added' products to reach the home?
As it seems voip would lag too much if delivered by satellite, what with 900ms access times and such..
Or are they making a play to become wireless broadband in much the way cell phones work today, to make it possible to be mobile while the service works.. to compete with 3g, 4g type networks in this segment. It seems possible that 'unlimited type' plans could be the norm, if a competitor were to come in and declare they are going to deliver the VOIP version of wirless phone providership, on so-called unregulated airspace-- but the only hurdle would be the so-called tower sites to be built (seemingly less than launching a satellite into orbit, no?)
You can look at it another way: spaceway which was the directv equivilant of Verizon Fios was supposed to be the nextgen satellite competitior on equal par, but the technology was not-to-be... the possibilties of getting sub-100ms lagtime was too 'expensive' shall we say, so, why not short circuit 800ms of lagtime by building land-based antennas. Even if they overcome the roadblocks to competing with a multi-billion dollar cell phone industry, will they gain the trust of consumers to ditch Fiber & Cable in favor of Wireless and Satellite-- in a triple-play switcharoo?
That's anybody's guess.
P.S. I along with millions of subscribers are already 1/3 of the way there..  Lets see the magic trick at work. |
