ATT doing away with satellite TV
Previously I posted that in five years most people will get television over the Internet. Today ATT announced that they intend to do away with Direct TV and satellite TV by 2020 And provide tv over th...
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Well great. Next up, Verizon is buying Dish (rumored)... and I'm sure they'll follow AT&T's lead, shutting down the service.
They can sell their geosync bandwidth to more profitable endeavors... I read somewhere the geosync orbit for North America is pretty crowded, with few if any slots available, would be lucrative to free up that bandwidth.
Either that, or the satellites are expiring in a few years (thruster fuel, cumulative rad damage, etc) and rather than replace them, it's easier and cheaper to switch to "streaming" and just let those birds go dark.
I wonder how AT&T plans to deliver that bandwidth terrestrially, last time I had their DSL service at my house, they struggled to deliver 1mbit, which is not enough for HD.
They can sell their geosync bandwidth to more profitable endeavors... I read somewhere the geosync orbit for North America is pretty crowded, with few if any slots available, would be lucrative to free up that bandwidth.
Either that, or the satellites are expiring in a few years (thruster fuel, cumulative rad damage, etc) and rather than replace them, it's easier and cheaper to switch to "streaming" and just let those birds go dark.
I wonder how AT&T plans to deliver that bandwidth terrestrially, last time I had their DSL service at my house, they struggled to deliver 1mbit, which is not enough for HD.
