[kwlug-disc] Internet, Phone lines, TV. There can be only one?

[William Park]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:26:39PM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:
> So the recent thread about voicemail got me wondering about the big three
> 'communications' portals in our lives.
> 
> The recent upstarts of IPTV, the voip options and all the radio online...
> is this the beginning of the traditional models starting to coalesce into
> one?  It was always thought, or at least *I* always thought, that we'd
> eventually have a single service come into the home and provide all
> communications, be it one way or two way.
> 
> Until recently, I never really thought about it.  Makes me wonder what the
> big guys will do when all they offer is internet services and we have the
> ability to get our TV, phone and radio all through 3rd parties.

As long as you're going through Roger's coax cable or Bell's twisted
wires, they get you one way or another.  In order to have real
competition, you'd need real carriers, not 3rd party resellers who are
just backend accounting.

> 
> Does anyone think prices for TV will fall, as they have for phone?

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