Proposed new antenna from Dish

[Lue]

What kind of up/down speed could we expect from this new antenna? see link below.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23031791/dish-aims-marry-tvs-and-smartphones-sprint-merger

 

[the mack]

What new antenna, all I saw was some old 500 and 300 dishes in the picture.

 

[navychop]

Mentioned attaching an antenna for broadband to the dish.

 

[the mack]

I must be blind. saw no mention of it.

edit. just saw it.

 

[Bob2011]

It should be close to mid range DSL speeds like 3 to 5 Mbit/s if its anything like Clearwire.

Did anyone else find this paragraph disturbing?

"Hopper in your home is pretty smart, knows what you're watching, and we can pull very specific ads to you," Ergen said. "But when you get outside the home with the smartphone, it's even smarter. It knows where you go on the Web, it knows who you call, it knows physically with GPS where you are. In the future, that phone is also going to be your wallet, so it knows what you spend money on."

 

[MikeD-C05]

It should be close to mid range DSL speeds like 3 to 5 Mbit/s if its anything like Clearwire.

Did anyone else find this paragraph disturbing?

"Hopper in your home is pretty smart, knows what you're watching, and we can pull very specific ads to you," Ergen said. "But when you get outside the home with the smartphone, it's even smarter. It knows where you go on the Web, it knows who you call, it knows physically with GPS where you are. In the future, that phone is also going to be your wallet, so it knows what you spend money on."

Sounds like the hopper is turning out to be " BIG BROTHER ".