ESPN 360 Model Continues To Take Flak > Small ISPS

reply to hottboiinnc

Re: Small ISPS

they're still a co-op when it is said and done. But the fact is if they can provide it; there is no reason why nobody can't. especially when these co-ops only have a hand full of customers.

You've lost me now. Are you referencing a specific co-op that has successfully negotiated a deal with Disney for ESPN3 content?

there are several go check their ISP partners. If people on here would have read that a long time ago you would have seen that there are several Co-Ops and Munis that are offering ESPN360 to their customers. But instead everyone was on here bashing the idea.
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Ok, so 11 coops (only counted ISPs with Coop in their name/website) have negotiated for ESPN3. How many consumers does that represent? What are the structures of those coops? I still standby ESPN setting a precedent that most consumers won't like in the long-run.

11 is better than nothing. And just because its not in their name or in their website it does not mean not a co-op there are several from Ohio that are co-ops on there and not in the name or in the url or on the front page of their site. But anyway. And it shows that small ISPs can do it, they just choose not to and want a law to protect them from something that they need to embrace now or later. And Customers can change ISPs if they choose not to want to support this. There is nothing stopping them from doing that. They always have a choice weather they want it or not. But instead they'd rather bitch about the fact that the industry is changing and is always changing. Time to wake up and smell the Starbucks.
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To save me from looking at 50+ website, I only counted the "coop-named" companies. I understand there are probably more, but that's more effort than I'm willing to apply.

I'm one of the biggest capitalist pigs on this site and I usually don't have an issue with making profit, but the only entity that benefits from ESPN3-like deals are the content owners. The ISPs don't benefit, and the consumers definitely don't. The industry isn't changing, although the content owners continue to push hard to make it so.

It's a whole separate discussion, but how much competition exists around these coop telecoms? I'm gonna guess not a whole bunch.