psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX
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Re: Assumptions....
said by Matt  :If AT&T prohibits me from "slinging" my TV signal over 3G, but allows their U-Verse service to work over it, we have a huge problem. Different use of technology, different bandwidth requirements.
IF, and that's a big IF, AT&T decides to make an app, they certainly won't be dishing out the content from the user's home. There is a reason why the video NOC for U-Verse is in Kansas. And by NOT pushing out data from every single home, they can compress and shape the data better. AT&T will be able to push video content to the iPhone through 3G with considerably less bandwidth costs than Slingbox.
But no, let's go conspiracy theory instead. Never mind the streaming verbiage has been in the TOS since the beginning of time, it's just modified to better represent a technology that is coming up. Randall Stephenson is just laughing in his office in One Bell here in Dallas, rolling around in piles of ill gotten gains, deciding what to do once he takes over every phone company. I bet he's going to start ripping out all the fiber and forcing everyone back to copper, rotary dial, and Bertha at the CO will have to route calls again. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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Jamestown, NC
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| said by psx_defector :said by Matt :If AT&T prohibits me from "slinging" my TV signal over 3G, but allows their U-Verse service to work over it, we have a huge problem. Different use of technology, different bandwidth requirements. It's the 3G network they are worried about, not the users pushing 1Mbps across their wired backbone. |
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psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX
| They also care about people streaming crap from their houses. It's just more immediate with the 3G network.
They ain't about to allow streaming from home. If they decide to make their own streaming app for the iPhone, it's going to ride the U-Verse network from the tower. No one in their right minds would allow for such a large bandwidth hog if they didn't have a way to reduce costs. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| said by psx_defector :They also care about people streaming crap from their houses. It's just more immediate with the 3G network. They ain't about to allow streaming from home. If they decide to make their own streaming app for the iPhone, it's going to ride the U-Verse network from the tower. No one in their right minds would allow for such a large bandwidth hog if they didn't have a way to reduce costs. Then why was the Orb streaming application, or any number of webcam streaming applications approved? The retail OrbLive application can do the exact same thing as the Slingbox. |
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psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX | Probably because they don't suck down the bandwidth like Sling does. 512Kbps spread over a bunch of people per tower does not equal happy usage for all. I'm not familiar with Orb, but I would bet the bandwidth necessary for use is much smaller. |
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