Dear Greg: Most people read postings so fast they are able to automatically fill in the blanks for dropped words. Edited or not, your points were clear and cause one to stop and think.
Thinking about the area I live right now, where no old transmitting towers exist and where people will never have access to services provided by the cable companies to customers in surrounding areas, I could forsee a time when the "town" [this is New England, even rural areas are considered "towns"] votes to build a tower should some cost sharing deal be proposed.
For example, lets say a tower is needed so we can utilize the new CSCO dishes and CSCO or whatever company is working with them makes an offer where they will build a tower 50:50 owned by the company and the town. Should the tower ultimately result in some generation of income for the town, I sure as heck would vote for it. Even though we here are angry with the cable company who holds this county as its territory for its refusal to bring the cable to us, cable customers in surrounding areas are angry with the cable company for constantly raising monthly fees and grumble that they are going to pull the same fee raising game when high speed internet acess if offered by them. In a situation such as this, CSCO dishs could take-off. What tower transmitter would these people be using? That 50% owned by my "town."
Lots of possibilities here, even if towers have to be built.
Regards,
Lynn
P.S. Should DirectTV come up with something, they are going to have a luke warm reception here. This is PrimeStar land, gradually being converted to DirectTV. People shifted already feel lied to since their monthly fees have gone up, even though they were told fees would be the same. In addition, the onscreen program guide, the substitution for a printed monthly program guide, gets bashed. Basically, people are not happy with DirectTV for a number of reason which would make it easy for CSCO to compete against them for high speed internet service.
In closing and totally OT, any idea if an old PrimeStar dish can be modified to use as a UHF/VHF or radio antenna (AM/FM/ or SW)?? Those DirectTV installers are removing the PrimeStar dishes then leaving them for the home owners to dispose of. Not too professional and those old dishes are pretty big and heavy!
Lynn |
