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Written by Start a WISP Site Admin
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Thursday, 10 February 2005 |
"Anyone doing/thought about this one? The cable company sells phone service, the phone company will soon be selling tv.
This
is not something I would do off the bat, but if you have a large client
base using internet/voip and have the bandwidth to spare it could do
well.
You would probbly have to work a deal with a sat provider
and get a good downlink. And find some sort of hardware to use on the
clients end. I have no idea how much that would cost...
And what about radio?"
nortexcomp:
Wouldn't it have something to do with
TV/Video on Demand like Cinemanow's service? I would image radio would
be the same.
http://www.cinemanow.com/
What about Microsoft's product?
http://www.msntv.com/pc/
shamanfk:
I have
seen satellite TV (dish/directtv) via the internet at a fraction
of the cost (around $10 monthly),,,and the satellite radio providers
have internet streaming as well..
The trick
would be to build a box with simple connections to a TV,,but the
satellite TV providers are giving that away.
jamesn:
I was thinking of something along the same lines, myself. We have tons
of intra-network bandwidth to burn; becoming a provider of content
would be great. I am looking forward to Apple's release of Quicktime 7
which supports h264. To the best of my understanding, h264 will provide
the quality, scalability and high compression capabilities that are
needed. Check out http://macenterprise.org/content/view/128/42/ for a presentation on how the University of Wisconsin did it over fiber. The same system could be adapted to wireless.
Mookfu:
That looks similar to what I was thinking about doing. This idea is
still rolling around in my head but I am intrested in starting a WISP
for sure.
I was thinking of selling internet access and VOIP to
state out maybe. But in time I wanted to get tv to the home via my
network, and when I do that I wanted to other content to the home like
weather, sports scores etc, that could be checked from both the pc (via
my WISP's website) or the tv.
Just a thought, again I am just starting to look at this stuff. Please let me know if anything I speak of is not possible  I think wireless technolgy is great, its good to see the hometown ISP can survive in this day an age 
nortelexcomp:
"Well I was thinking with this you could by-pass your internet
back-bone all togther. And just use the un-used bandwidth you are
already pushing to the house."
Wouldn't you then need to have a
separate feed from "Satellite or Cable" to then be able to pipe it
through your Wireless Network. Something like this type of equipment?
http://www.rm.com/FE/Products/Product.asp?cref=PD298086&SrcURL=/FE/Default.asp
http://www.ericsson.com/telecomreport/article.asp?aid=20&tid=146&ma=1&msa=3
I guess you can research on what this is-Microsoft TV Foundation Edition 1.7 software.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=3965
http://www.microsoft.com/tv/default.mspx
http://itresearch.forbes.com/data/detail?id=1005970239_113&type=RES&src=TOPRES
http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Press/PressReleases/CorporatePress/PR050127.htm
Mookfu:
Probbly some sort of sat downlink would work best. I would'nt try to
re-sell cable tv service, the point of me selling tv is to pull
subscribers away from them and hopfully sell them internet access at
the same time
nortelexcomp:
Or you could sell Comcast TV(or any other TV provider) in Charter TV
territory, thus expanding Comcast's(or any other TV provider)reach.
This could be a new revenue stream for them in the form of wholesaling
their video products. This way they don't have to pay for the cost of
building the infrastructure. You or the provider link up with enough
bandwidth to pipe the video signal to your NOC or remote site and then
you redistribute it to your customers. I know Dish Networks charges a
small fee like $1.50 per room a month for hotels to offer satellite TV
service in each room.
Also I emailed Microsoft TV, to see how
ISPs fit into their vision of their TV product family. It say on the
site that its for hardware manufacturers or pay-TV Operators. So where
does that leave us ISPs?
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