Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

Sat Feb 2 21:52:47 UTC 2013

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:

>> Perhaps I live in a different world, but just about all of the small to
>> midsize service providers I work with offer triple play today, and nearly
>> all of them are migrating their triple play services to IP.
>
> Really.  Citations?  I'd love to see it play that way, myself.

Okay:

South Central Rural Telephone
Glasgow, KY
http://www.scrtc.com/
Left side of page, "Digital TV service".  See this news article:

http://www.wcluradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15567:capacity-crowd-hears-good-report-at-scrtc-annuan-mee

"He also reported that SCRTC is continuing to upgrade our services, 
converting customers to the new IPTV service and trying to get as much 
fiber optic cable built as possible."

Camellia Communications
Greenville, AL
http://camelliacom.com/services/ctv-dvr.html
Note the models of set-top boxes they are using are IP based

Griswold Cooperative Telephone
Griswold, IA
http://www.griswoldtelco.com/griswold-coop-iptv-video

Farmer's Mutual Coopeative Telephone
Moulton, IA
http://farmersmutualcoop.com/

Citizens
Floyd, VA
http://www.citizens.coop/

How about a Canadian example you say?

CoopTel
Valcourt, QB
http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/en-residentiel-tele-guidesusager.php
Check out the models of set-top boxes here too.

Oh, also, have you heard of ATT U-Verse?

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=26580

"AT&T U-verse TV is the only 100 percent Internet Protocol-based 
television (IPTV) service offered by a national service provider"

So even the likes of AT&T, in this scheme, could buy fiber paths to their 
subs and provide TV service.  I'm pretty sure AT&T knows how to deliver 
voice services over IP as well.

Do you want more examples?  I bet I can come up with 50 small/regional 
telecom companies that are providing TV services over IP in North America 
if I put my mind to it.

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