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    SkepticOne
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    watty wrote: »
    Of course it works.
    But not at all for over half of phone line users. It's simply not viable technology to market and deploy on Irish DSL.
    Even if this is true, so what? It is not an argument that the BBC and others need to stop raising expectations.
    Yes your line passes for DSL but not IPTV and it will quadruple your BB subscription cost if it did and because we have deployed it your non-IPTV DSL is twice as expensive.
    I'm not sure how you make this out. It is not like a government department where there's a fixed budget and what is spent in one area is therefore not available to spend in another. If a company goes for IPTV or any other service it is because they feel rightly or wrongly that there's a return in it and will raise money accordingly. They don't have the option of jacking up prices without losing customers to competition. People will shift either to competing platforms like cable or fixed wireless, LLU based operators or bitstream.
    Some aspects of IPTV nearly are snake oil.
    Sure, and it is quite right to point out those aspects. It doesn't follow however that the likes of BBC should stop raising expectations with iPlayer and the like. Challenges like this is what moves the industry along. As a consumer I hope there's more.

    And none of this has anything to do with tax-payer funded programmes like the NBS. No one is arguing that the government should get involved in subsidising this type of thing any more than they should subsidise video rental outlets in rural areas. This stuff is for private companies where they have the infrastructure and where they feel the return is great enough to take the risk, fully bearing that risk if they fail.


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