|
|
Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:37 |
|
TV folk: Brian Roberts of Comcast changed the Internet in June, 2008. He's going to offer 50 megabit service to his 50M customers by 2010. That's fast enough for 4 HD channels and much more. 60% of the U.S. will be able to get that speed in 2010-2011, and 80% soon after. Quickly, far more people will be able to watch quality TV, especially if the cablecos price reasonably.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:38 |
SBC Clamps Down on Outside Video
Randall Stephenson, now CEO of AT&T, controls Internet connection across the U.S. In case anyone doubts their talk of caps, here's an excerpt about what he said in several years ago. “Oh no,” SBC's #2, Randall Stephenson answered me on whether his DSL customers could watch live video beyond what SBC is selling. “We‘re going to control the video on our network. The content guys will have to make a deal with us.” Around the same time, Al Gore, a man who might be President, had to come hat in hand to Marilyn O'Connell of Verizon, seeking carriage of his Current TV channel on FIOS. She found it interesting, so the odds are good.
Something is inherently wrong if the crucial innovators on the net need to beg the carriers for basic freedom of speech. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:00 |
|
AT&T traffic is growing 25%-30%/year/customer, with a dramatic shift from p2p to YouTube and Hulu like video. Easily a third of AT&T's downstream traffic is now “web audio-video,” far more than p2p and the gap is widening rapidly. |
|
Read more...
|
|
Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:36 |
|
$0.25 To Stream a DVD Quality Movie, $0.80 for HD. Those low costs in 2006 inspired the web video boom now transforming TV. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:42 |
|
In 2005, UPC Cable's CTO estimated his bandwidth cost at 10 cents/gigabyte. That's less than $1/per at the three gigabytes Comcast and most other U.S. carriers estimate. That's 1-3% of the $30-50 price customers pay. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
|
