[160278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Feb 3 11:14:36 2013
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 11:14:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Ross" <bross@pobox.com>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Frank Bulk wrote:
>
> > Yes, but IP TV is not profitable on stand-alone basis -- it's just a
> > necessary part of the triple play. A lot of the discussion has been
> > about > Internet and network design, but not much about the other two
> > "plays".
>
> I don't know if that's true or not, but so what?
>
> The concern was that providers would be unable to provide television
> services across this muni fiber infrastructure and that customers would
> demand triple play. I showed that they absolutely can provide this
> service by doing it across IP.
Yeah; I'm not sure what Frank was worried about on this one, either. :-)
Your citations were just what I needed, Brandon.
Why did you think there was a problem, here, Frank?
Cheers,
-- jra
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