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To: lml who wrote (2578)	12/14/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

interactive broadband technology via its satellite infrastructure I did not see the interview, but am highly skeptical about interactive broadband via satellite. The bandwidth just isn't there to become an ISP in the sky. What DirectTV, through DirectPC has been doing is to download large cached files to pizza dishes, but the upload is still through telephone lines. The DirectTV deal with Hughes is a response to DISH's (Echostar) deal with News Corp and agreement to drop the lawsuit against Ruppert. DirectTV and Dish have been competing for customers, but Dish has had the leg up with orbital slots and a higher growth rate, but they have had problems at the regulatory and contractural end. With the News Corp deal, they had an inside track and DirectTV had to response somehow. But that is a LONG way from satellite-based interactive broadband, which runs into problems with availability of orbital slots at geosynchronous orbits. If it were ever to happen, it would probably by through some low earth orbit constellations, but the asynchronous geo cache/ terrestrial upload model will probably be around for a long time to come.