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Cham:
Problem with IP services is that the target audience likely does not have access to bandwidth for video. I am thinking rural or small towns that do not have a major cable company supplying reletively cheap cable or internet services. Where I live, I have to pay more than $100/mo for internet service that is really too slow for video; but it is the only service I have access to other than satellite which would cost even more plus bandwidth charges.

"You would have a better chance at making it big by going the IPTV route. IPTV is relatively cheap to deploy these days and most everyone has a fast enough internet connection to support IPTV streaming. IPTV set top boxes are only around $100"

Looker:
Hi Cham,

Where about are you? IPTV has made some good advancements in recent years and now using H.264 a 1Mbps stream can provide a resonabally good SD quality video.

For example Bell Canada is no longer interested in investing in any new technology with their satellite TV service Bell TV (ExpressVU), they maintain it but they are trying to move people away from it to their new Fibe TV IPTV system.

Also Fibe TV is the best selling product in the 137 year history of the Bell Canada company.

Cham:
I am in a fairly well populated area of southern Manitoba close to the US border. Most rural or small town residential and small businesses here only have access to 100-300Kb low speed DSL or RF. Local data from cell providers is very expensive and throughput is dismal, worse during the daytime. We have no access to Bell Canada other than Bell Satellite with dial-up uplink. No fibe IPTV here, I don't even think this service is available in Winnipeg.

One local company (Manitoba specific) installed LTE systems on their cell towers, but have no connectivity to the cell towers to support the bandwidth, so they haven't even bothered to turn them on... Smart phones do work here but loading web pages is very slow. VOIP services like Skype work but with voice only. Many rural residents still use dial-up because it's all they can afford or all that's available.

There is really no incentive for large telecom companies to provide services to rural or small town residents in this country. Their shareholders want to see more profit for their investment, and only covering the highest density population areas is the only way to achieve this.

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