AT&T's already in a pretty good spectrum position BEFORE the 600MHz auction next year. Dish is the one with all the (unused) spectrum. DirecTV's big asset is their exclusive eight year deal with the NFL, but even that's nowhere near worth $49 billion (plus debt).
I really think they're picking their battles after some pretty intense fighting with the industry over Title II, neutrality, municipal broadband, and a new 25 Mbps definition for broadband.
I believe the logic goes they can give industry something it wants, but won't really matter in the long run as Internet video takes off.
It's in the original release. Perhaps the inability to spell out premises is in some way tied to the FCC's inability to see most of AT&T's promised deployment has nothing to do with the merger?
Because on the broadband side the most competition they see across 50% of its footprint are DSL providers who can't offer more than 6 Mbps and don't even really want to be in the fixed-line residential broadband business.
Plus modem rental fees, plus fees to pay your bill in person, plus fees to pay your bill over the phone, plus hidden "regulatory recovery" fees, plus buried "Broadcast TV" fees......
"Now, in his FCC statement, Florance says that Netflix’s Comcast customers noticed, and complained, and in some cases quit paying for Netflix.
“For many [Comcast] subscribers, the bitrate was so poor that Netflix’s streaming video service became unusable,” he writes, then notes that Comcast reps eventually told subscribers to take their beef to Netflix. “Those customers complained to Netflix and some of them canceled their Netflix subscription on the spot, citing the unacceptable quality of Netflix’s video streams and Netflix’s inability to do anything to change the situation.”
Well their TOS has boiler plate language saying you can't run a server (like all residential ISPs), but I've only seen one person I can recall that was publicly shut down for it -- and I think he was trying to run a major business out of his closet.
Absolutely! They've actually made "cherry picking" fashionable again, which is one of the huge downsides of this kind of approach.
That said, they've also shown a spotlight on the fact that many towns and cities were being prohibited from building their own broadband via ISP-crafted state law. They've also been teaching towns and cities how to get out of the way and encourage investment.
Again, the real benefits to Google Fiber go being the admittedly piddly actual deployment footprint. Still, we definitely have huge coverage issues that it's very clear we need better solutions for.
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Yes, Google bought me a boat to point out that offering $70, gigabit broadband in a stale duopoly rife with apathetic, shitty ISPs has been a GOOD THING.
I am now writing this response to you from said boat. My multi-color Google slippers (made from real Sable fur, I believe) are very comfy.
Computers, but my understanding is that they're still working on tracking tablet and smartphone views? IIRC they announced this program in late 2013 early 2014 but it's still very much being implemented. Which, again, is odd for a company that's supposed to have its finger right on the pulse of viewing metrics.
Yes they literally just started tracking some online viewing metrics I think, but it's a work in progress with several false starts and limited data collected.
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I believe the logic goes they can give industry something it wants, but won't really matter in the long run as Internet video takes off.
That doesn't explain however why they're helping AT&T push bullshit deployment claims.
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Wow, that's not even a sentence. Meant to say the real benefits "go beyond."
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That said, they've also shown a spotlight on the fact that many towns and cities were being prohibited from building their own broadband via ISP-crafted state law. They've also been teaching towns and cities how to get out of the way and encourage investment.
Again, the real benefits to Google Fiber go being the admittedly piddly actual deployment footprint. Still, we definitely have huge coverage issues that it's very clear we need better solutions for.
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I am now writing this response to you from said boat. My multi-color Google slippers (made from real Sable fur, I believe) are very comfy.
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