[53455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DirecPC Protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Thu Nov 14 20:34:33 2002
From: "Scott Granados" <scott@wworks.net>
To: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:59:12 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ah didn't know that. Seems like it has some possibilities but I agree I
think it would be hard to make money in the consumer space. Direct-tv is
doing it according to some other posts I read here but again I think
direct-tv's installed base is 3 or 4 times that of dish. To bad they didn't
merge.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: DirecPC Protocols
>
> Scott,
>
> Just an f.y.i., Charlie Ergan (DishNetwork) said he couldn't see how the
business
> plan could succeed and pulled out of StarBand. They are currently in
Chap. 11.
>
> http://65.186.192.177/liarband/ch11.html
>
> --Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Granados" <scott@wworks.net>
> To: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: DirecPC Protocols
>
>
> >
> > Well there are some two way dish solutions for consumers now that don't
> > need a dial-uplink. I think dishnetwork has such a thing as does direct
> > tv. Doesn't help much but does help people in remote areas.
> >
>
>
