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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (10546)	2/25/2001 10:01:40 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Peter do want to say: BBFW is dead? Elmat

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (10546)	2/25/2001 10:50:10 AM
From: yggdrasil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

PeterE, What does a household pay today for cable or EchoStar plus telephone line plus local plus LD plus ISP plus DSL? I have a vision like many others on SI, admittedly longer-term, of a broadband pipe that delivers all of the above with TV and Radio delivered streaming and VoD on top and with as much as you can eat telephone calls anywhere thrown in at the same fixed rate? Would I buy that as a consumer? Of course I would. I think Mike A's figures are in the right ballpark. Yes, we will have delay in market take-up as always when we have paradigm shifts but otherwise I don't see any unsurmountable technology barriers but I do on the other hand see a regulatory mess and I do see incumbents, the establishment, fighting every which way they can to delay and block. Will the old broadcasting networks like this? Hell no! The old Telcos? Of course not. The content providers, be it film or music? Hardly, but possibly if IPR can be sorted out. Well, it is a big subject and we are only skimming the surface. I don't think the solution is in technology but I may be wrong. Witness Napster and sons and daughters of Napster, stuff that anarchy and revolution are made of.