Re: Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

Jay,

While its certainly technically possible to offer linear video in a shared
network model the content owners have big objections of that.  There really
is no way to do wholesale IPTV except for a very few organizations like the
cable coop (NCTC http://www.nctconline.org/).


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brandon Ross" <bross () pobox com>
>
> > > 6) And pursuant to 3, perhaps I could even set up the IPTV service and
> > > resell that to the L3 provider to bundle with their IP service, so
> > > they don't have to do it themselves; while it's not a difficult as I
> > > had gathered, it's still harder than them doing VoIP as part of
> > > their own triple-play.
> >
> > So you are going to prohibit the operator of the fiber plant from
> > running layer 3 services, but then turn around and let them offer IPTV?
> That
> > seems quite inconsistent to me. And just because it's "hard"?
>
> No; I wouldn't offer it retail; I'd offer it to all provider-comers
> wholesale, at cost plus, just like everything else.
>
> > Running a decent layer 3 service is "hard" too. Isn't the whole point to
> > let these service providers compete with each other on the quality and
> > cost of their services?
>
> You could say the same thing about the uplink, though; I note you didn't
> throw a flag at that, or at Akamai; is the IPTV issue different to you?
>
> Fair point.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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