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Originally Posted by Horace
Murdoch owns one of the biggest movie studios and TV companies in the US. He's also willing to oudbid anyone for EPL distribution. So, until the U.K. TV audience tires of American fayre I doubt Murdoch or BSKYB are going anywhere.
Eventually satellite will become a misnomer when IPTV becomes a genuine reality. Who wants to pay the massive amounts to a satellite company for limited capacity when you can have virtually unlimited capacity over a network much more economically. Murdoch has seen this and he knows should his empire continue to prosper under his children he had to get into the broadband game now....which is nice.
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All this talk of iptv etc. tho you will find sattelite coverage is pretty good, whilst their broadband goes over a copper local loop which is only decent on 25% of phone lines the rest noisy and long. I would say they probably fine using sattelite for tv and the reasoning for entering the broadband market was nothing to do with iptv but rather so they could offer bundles, if the ancient copper local loop ever gets upgraded to fiber then its a different story.
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Originally Posted by pachelbel
Last year I read an article by NTL stating they would not lay any new cable due to the cost. Wimax would be the answer to service non cable areas. This week the city pundits are putting forward a tie up with Cable & Wireless to provide Virgin Media services to non cabled areas. I don't think we will have to wait long for the answer.
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At some point someone in the uk is going to have to bite their tongue and invest in fiber, wimax isnt an answer copper certianly isnt an answer, they all far less capable then fiber. For whatever reason it may be noone seems willing to go it with fiber in the uk yet its progressing in other developed countries.