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Do many young people watch TV anymore? It seems like netflix + youtube scratches that itch.
Sports. ESPN + NFL Redzone + TNT + Local channels in HD have no good alternative on the internet. If they did I wouldn't pay for TV.
Use this as a perfect example to explain to people why Net Neutrality matters. "What incentive does AT&T have to bring you good streaming experience for Netflix, Hulu, or heck even Youtube when they'd much much MUCH rather you were buying DirecTV from them?"
Think. How would the content providers - any of them, from Disney to Facebook - get their content at the consumer without the data-distributors, from Comcast to AT&T ? The saying is internet kills the middleman, but this is the real middleman that needs to be killed, and just as our roads are free and open to everyone, so should the digital roads be.
Use this as a perfect example to explain to people why Net Neutrality matters. "What incentive does AT&T have to bring you good streaming experience for Netflix, Hulu, or heck even Youtube when they'd much much MUCH rather you were buying DirecTV from them?"
Because I'll switch to Comcast or Verizon if I'm an ATT customer and their internet service is bad?
That's why they can refuse to upgrade their peering with Netflix in the first place, because they know I'm stuck with them, when I'd dump pretty much any ISP who didn't upgrade their peering with a major website that I visit (in like 3-4 months) if I had the option to.
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Sports. ESPN + NFL Redzone + TNT + Local channels in HD have no good alternative on the internet. If they did I wouldn't pay for TV.
Yes! Cable = Sports. If they somehow decouple those two then I'm all Internet.
Put that WhatsApp acquisition in your pipe and smoke it, Zuckerberg.
[0]: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1465112/0001047469140...
Is it bad that I read this as 'AT&T to Buy DirecTV for 2.7 WhatsApps?'
Next up AT&T + Comcast merger... 'Cause why not?
Think. How would the content providers - any of them, from Disney to Facebook - get their content at the consumer without the data-distributors, from Comcast to AT&T ? The saying is internet kills the middleman, but this is the real middleman that needs to be killed, and just as our roads are free and open to everyone, so should the digital roads be.
Roads aren't free, we pay for them in taxes and tolls.