@commanda6 wrote:
@Anonymous User wrote:
Just reading this article about Netflix and Comcast on the other side of the pond, and thinking how long it will be before the majority of pay TV is online. I reckon five years from here. Once mobile broadband is fast enough and has close to 100% coverage then who is going to need their dish?
An hour after Comcast Corp. said its Esquire cable network will shut down, a sign of flagging interest in traditional pay TV, Netflix Inc. reported its biggest quarter ever, beating analysts’ estimates on new subscribers and validating its vision of a world where everyone watches TV online and on-demand.
Hi @Anonymous User
This is a very interesting subject and while I agree with you that more and more pay-TV is going to be delivered via the Internet. As time goes on. I don't think mobile networks are going to have as much of an impact as people think they are. However, if fixed line connections continue to improve that is going to have a much bigger impact.
Most people think that it's just network coverage that is the problem, but there is another perhaps a more significant issue. On mobile data networks there is a finite amount of overall bandwidth available. In some areas there is a very finite amount of overall bandwidth due to old or limited infrastructure In a lot of these areas mobile networks are resistant to improve the infrastructure because there is not enough people using the mobile networks in these areas. There probably isn't going to be enough bandwidth available to have a large number of people streaming video on a mobile data network. Particularly as the minimum video quality people expect keeps increasing. Something is going to have to give.
Mistake in the last post has been corrected by correcting the quote above. The perils of using dictation software 
