I could see Charlie purchasing some smaller companies. Using their goodwill, and pushing out a new network from scratch. It would be icing on the cake if he got Mike White to be the CEO of that company. That might piss ATT off.
New Dish Prices, effective Jan 16
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I don't see a deal with T-Mobile or Sprint happening. US Cellular might be an option though.
For me that would be awesome. I’ve been with us cellular since Alltel was bought by Verizon. Here in Wisconsin they have awesome coverage and on my road trip down to Kentucky and Tennessee I only had one dead zone about 5 miles long. Of course I was roaming but they sill include that as part of all their plans. I even had lte. If dish could buy a bunch of the smaller companies I think they would have a really good chance at making it work out.
Now that Net Neutrality is changed and internet providers will be able to throttle internet download/upload speeds, services like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, etc. will now be at risk. All streamers who were using services that were unthrottled now will have to pay higher monthly fees for unlimited high speed internet. I believe that Amazon and Netflix will need to buy internet providers to deliver their services or be subject to throttling controls and loss of subscribers. Their free lunch is coming to an end.
How is it a free lunch? Netflix pays for internet bandwidth at their end and I pay for Internet bandwidth at my end. No free lunch being served.
Netflix is considered a burden on ISP's. Video traffic is bandwidth intensive and requires a lot more throughput and demand on a network. ISP's want Netflix to pay their fair share.
Does Netflix pay the ISPs for taking over large portions of available bandwidth? No? Then Netflix is taking a free ride. Dish pays the channel owners to be able to offer the channels, and then pays for everything necessary to bring it to the home. Pretty much, the customer just has to pay the subscription, and for the television. If Netflix wasn’t using someone else to deliver their content, there might be an argument.
Do we really need to make this another net neutrality debate thread? Lets all find common ground and complain about the Dish price hikes...
Wouldn't two ISPs be required? One to get the signal from Netflix servers to the internet (which Netflix pays), and one from the internet to the customer (which the customer pays)? So how is Netflix getting a free ride? Just because their ISP used a pricing model that is beneficial to Netflix doesn't mean it's free.
If an ISP wants to change their pricing model from a speed setting ($50 for "up to" 50 Mbps or whatever) to a content model ($50 for "up to" 1gig of content), go for it.
Yes they do! Have a look at this article: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-th...-of-bandwidth-compared-to-the-average-website
I remember when Dish would let you pay annually, get locked in at the previous years prices and get s month free.
Then they made it too difficult and I end up going to monthly.
But then again for a decent package it was like $1200/yr
Then they made it too difficult and I end up going to monthly.
But then again for a decent package it was like $1200/yr
But that's up to the ISP and their customer. Netflix IS paying for their internet access, therefore no "free lunch". You may think they're not paying enough, but not your call.
It’s up to the ISP to charge that to the customer or the service, if they choose. Which is exactly why Net Nuetrality is bad. Government should not be able to decide how free market works.
Please stop this....There is no such thing as a free market, and governement is there only solution!......Its our courts that make the rules and enforce them......In a free market there is no control or ramifications for cheeting or steeling.....Again....There is no such thing as a "free market"!
