DirecTV & Echostar Broadband Execs confirm talks, but say nothing's cemented DirecTV executives have confirmed they're in talks with Echostar and several other companies (likely tower) about building a national wireless broadband network, but state that no decisions have been made yet. Rupert Murdoch stated earlier this month that he was making a billion dollar wireless broadband push under the DirecTV brand, most likely utilizing Wimax.
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kudos:4 |  Won't there be monopoly concerns??
The US blocked a previous attempt by Murdoch to join up or take over Echostar. How far can this be expected to go?
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kudos:1 | Re: Won't there be monopoly concerns?? I think it makes sense for them to join together on a wireless broadband venture. They are able to share costs and be able to compete with the cable all in one offerings.
Now having it be full coverage nationwide is another thing to see. Directv will be very selective on what markets they penetrate first, which will be bad news for those who are hoping to get away from Direcway. | |
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| said by Romney2012:With the two main satellite competitors joining together to roll out a product, especially with Murdoch's power as a provider of content and then getting into delivery as well, won't this bring up monopoly issues? Depends on how you look at it. If you are looking at it from the standpoint that it is the two largest satellite providers providing broadband, yeah it's a monopoly in that regard. But if you look at the broadband industry in general, no it's not a monopoly. People would still have the choice of DSL, FiOS, Cable, etc (were applicable of course).
I would look at this not as two companies merging, but more along the lines of a partnership. Both could benefit by having a broadband network available, and they wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel twice. Sharing the cost also has strategic advantages then trying to compete with each other as well as FiOS and cable individually.
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kudos:4 | Re: Won't there be monopoly concerns?? said by Cerabus12:i wonder how this will work for us people in rural areas Just like every other broadband rollout. If you don't have enough people in an area to make deployment profitable, it won't happen.
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Brooklyn, NY | Doesn't worth jacksh*t Both Dish and DirecTV are fairly clueless on this whole story... broadband... I have a feeling that after this 'experiment' failed - because it will die pretty fast -, we, TV subscribers will pay the bills.
DirecTV rather should think about its pathetic, nonexistent HD lineup and its compressed-to-hell shitty EDTV (HD-Lite) channels.
Dish should also rather think about its downrezzed shitty EDTV (HD-Lite) HD picture quality and start explaining how is that when you *buy* their new MPEG4 HD DVR and you don't subscribe either their max package or HD pack, you have to pay a monthly fee for receiving the freely available local Off-The-Air (OTA) programming/
Two greedy suckers, Dish and DirecTV, that's what they are.
Broadband - ROFL, ridiculous. | |
| | | 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. | |
| | | | eww Im sure as hell not willing to lose my Television, Internet and phone suring a heavy rain or snowstorm. haha As soon as AT&T gets fiber/ IPTV to my house, bye bye to the ugly dish. | |
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