CO_Chris
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join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO
3 edits | No Thanks
No Thanks i will stay with TWC as long as i live in TX. I gave SBC the Boot a few weeks ago and have never looked back since.
Ps I can see all the hiding TAX's they will have with there service. |
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Derch
Premium
join:2004-10-16
Tulsa, OK | It might take prices down a bit, nothing wrong with a little competition. |
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA | Re-report?
Wasn't this reported previously? I will also re-report that SBC is not the only ILEC looking to get into the IPTV business. |
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO
 ·Cox HSI
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Re: No Thanks
We shall see...
14% of the homes in the market that subscribe to pay tv services (cable, dish, etc.), which is typically 65 to 75% of the homes passed by the service.
SBC seems to forget that they will be competing with both the Cable Provider AND the Dish Providers.
SBC better have a VERY VERY VERY VERY compelling offer that is NOT based upon price and they better be sure they don't just end up selling their service to all of the Cable Company's non-pay accounts. |
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to ParanoiaInc
Re: Re-report?
Wasn't this reported previously?
lol!
hence the line in the news blurb that says:
(see previous report)
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA | I know, I I caught that, but I still wished to poke fun at them.  |
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Xtort
join:2001-07-28
Edmonton, AB | Lovely..
Something else to transfer to Yahoo! for when you want tech support... 
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
1 edit | Oh Please....again
If you think I am going to give up Dish Network for this I have startling news for you, this is like BPL is a day late and a 3 dollar bill short.
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO
·Cox HSI
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Re: Re-report?
Actually I think the telcos have been saying this sort of thing since the early 90s ... video services... right around the corner... soon... next year.... testing now... field trial is live... etc etc etc.
I will believe it when I see video coming out of that unused, dusty little pair of coppers wires sticking out of my wall |
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r81984
Fair and Balanced
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join:2001-11-14
St John'S, NL | Americast
Ameritech already came out with tv years ago in illinois. It was called americast. |
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Iceblink8
By your command
Premium
join:2002-03-21
San Diego, CA | if they build it I will come.....
If SBC IP TV can bring me Sci Fi in HDTV I would try it.They cant be any worse than time warner. I so miss cox cable. |
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Phoenix2088
join:2002-12-04
Strongsville, OH
clubs:
1 edit | reply to r81984
Re: Americast
It has since been sold to WideOpenWest. The americast service was actually cable, not some TV service delivered over a flavor of DSL. |
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blackjeep
join:2001-07-12
Atlanta, GA | ACTUALLY....Americast was Fiber, not some flavor of Cable. And you're absolutely right, Americast is not a flavor of DSL either, it is a VIDEO service. |
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ke4pym
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC
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·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Derch
Re: No Thanks
DirecTV and Dish aren't doing much to keep the cable prices low. DirecTV, and their HD offering (at 10.99 for 4 HD channels) is actually MORE expensive than the 5 premium HD channels we get for $6.95/mo on TWC here (we have 17 available).
And TWC just raised their prices for the 2nd time this year. I don't really see the Bells and their video services doing a lot for cable's price increases. |
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Phoenix2088
join:2002-12-04
Strongsville, OH
clubs:
4 edits | reply to blackjeep
Re: Americast
No you are incorrect, amercast was not completely fiber. It uses a HFC (Hybrid-Fiber Coaxial) network setup. It is just like any other cable company, Comcast, TWC etc that Ameritech/SBC owned and operated (Now owned by WideOpenWest). |
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO
·Cox HSI
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ACTUALLY....Americast was Fiber, not some flavor of Cable. And you're absolutely right, Americast is not a flavor of DSL either, it is a VIDEO service.
ACTUALLY NOT.
The Ameritech cable properties (branded under the Americast name) acquired by SBC and later sold to WOW are traditional cable delivered over an HFC network just like every other CableCo.
Americast was a telco effort at branding their video servies offerings, but it did not specify a particular means of delivery.
»telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_wow_deal/
and
Saying "Video Service" does not specify the underlying method of delivery.
You can have a "Video Service" delivered by a variety of means including a QAM HFC Network, Satellite, IP over DSL, ATM over DSL, etc. etc. etc. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
2 edits | reply to Iceblink8
Re: if they build it I will come.....
As was pointed out above I took the time to check out the HD programing on Dish Network and it just isn't worth it yet, now if they come out with an HD Anime Channel.........:D
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Pootie Tang
join:2003-03-18
Sacramento, CA |
soo..whats up w/ that "VOOM" service or network or whatever they are..iv never heard of anyone i know or anyone i dont know whose ever subscribed. do hey have any major or potential in all this hdtv stuff?
just curious. |
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sbc lover
@comcast.net | reply to CO_Chris
Re: No Thanks
Can't wait SBC. Bring it on! |
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
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Re: if they build it I will come.....
said by Pootie Tang  :soo..whats up w/ that "VOOM" service heh.. it flopped. From what I have been reading it's going to be up for sale soon, supposedly to Dish Network. |
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