| Users must be willing to pay for the spectrum and bandwidth Before the Slingbox can be used on cellular networks, users must be prepared to cover the cost. Spectrum is hugely expensive, and so is tower backhaul. It might well be possible to run a Slingbox if the user paid, say, $200 per month. |
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TheGhostPremium
join:2003-01-03
Lake Forest, IL | said by SuperWISP:Before the Slingbox can be used on cellular networks, users must be prepared to cover the cost. Spectrum is hugely expensive, and so is tower backhaul. It might well be possible to run a Slingbox if the user paid, say, $200 per month. They are already capped at $5GB before at&t starts to rip them a new one with 'overage charges', so they ARE already paying for up to 5GB a month (at&t used to call that 'unlimited' btw).
The issues is probably 2 fold:
1) at&t's network is not capable of supporting this low bit-rate streaming at the rates the expect people to use it (even though other similar applications are already allowed, ie: YouTube, Orb, etc)
2) at&t is planning a competing product for U-Verse and does not want the competition |
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Slingbox already works on AT&T's network. Been using it on my HTC 8525 for over three years.
The singling out of the iphone users in particular is the real issue here, especially since we already pay for a (faux) unlimited data plan. |
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