| Broadband This is the only real way Dish and DirecTV can deploy true VoD and other services. Currently they rely on the customers current HSI connection and are limited to the caps that are in place with ATT and Comcast and other soft caps that are NOT enforced.
But as we seen before their HSI (sat) and DSL (DirecTV) networks never really made it to anything and always end up being sold off. This would be another one of those and LightSquared will gobble it up for pennies when it fails. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Good news if no GPS interference in Dish's network This is all good news, if the Dish plans use frequencies not affecting GPS devices. Maybe Dish and Lightsquared can combine investing dollars and rollout a non-interfering service.
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
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| usual As usual, i'm skeptical till I see the actual product on the market.. Probably just another awesome piece of technology that will be overly capped and throttled.. Honestly, i'm not even sure why they are bothering with the lte networks with the caps i've seen.. Shut that down and burn it, its pointless for the amount your charged for what you get.. And don't give me the limited spectrum bs. They haven't even made a dent in the available spectrum out there...
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 Oh_NoTrogglus normalus
join:2011-05-21
Chicago, IL | reply to Linklist
Re: Good news if no GPS interference in Dish's network This is 20 Mhz in the S-band (2 to 4 GHz)
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_band
The S-Band is broad and is used for Wifi, communcation satellites, weather satellites, NASA, TV, cordless phones, Sirius XMradio, etc.
DBSD is 2010-2020 MHz and 2180-2190 MHz bands.
They are under the FCC requirement to be low powered satellite only. There has to be a reason for that, but there might be no interference problems. |
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| said by Oh_No:This is 20 Mhz in the S-band (2 to 4 GHz)
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_band
The S-Band is broad and is used for Wifi, communcation satellites, weather satellites, NASA, TV, cordless phones, Sirius XMradio, etc.
DBSD is 2010-2020 MHz and 2180-2190 MHz bands.
They are under the FCC requirement to be low powered satellite only. There has to be a reason for that, but there might be no interference problems.
Ouch that's pretty high frequency. They're not going to be providing much rural coverage on those bands. |
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Oh_NoTrogglus normalus
join:2011-05-21
Chicago, IL | Why? |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Sprint They should partner with Sprint, and do some rural build-out where Sprint isn't going to. |
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HIPAR
join:2005-11-10
Tannersville, PA | Did you ever look out the window when flying over the rural great plains? Do you think anyone is going to construct and maintain a network of towers to cover wheat fields? The only practical way to service those isolated farm houses is by satellite. Don't expect 4G service from that.
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HIPAR
join:2005-11-10
Tannersville, PA | reply to Oh_No
Re: Good news if no GPS interference in Dish's network Because signal attenuation from foliage, rain and walls increases with higher frequency. The best bands for wireless are in the 700 MHz range. |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | reply to HIPAR
Re: Sprint They desperately need real boradband, and satellite isn't that. A lot of areas have some sort of wireless now, who knows whether this will help them or not (probably not). |
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Re: Broadband Yeah your right. The only way to control that experience with VOD or potential SDV/IPTV is to control the last mile.
Broadcast bandwidth from sat's are a limited resource. IPTV/VOD or a switched digital multicast potentially adds unlimited capacity. It can't be trusted for linear TV delivery if they can't control the last mile along with an uncapped service.
If they do use this for video services down the road it's an answer to the bandwidth crunch. You can't really do VOD/IPTV or SDV form a satellite because even the most narrow focused spot beam hits too large of an area.
Hopefully this works out for Dish, however to cover the entire US is going to be a VERY expensive operation. |
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