Is Dish to be connected here with their ku band holdings?

[Lue]

14 million households expected to be on satellite broadband by 2020. At $20 dollars a month x 14 million users, that comes out to some good $change for the winning company.

On planes, trains, ships, and automobiles, from consumer living rooms to corporate boardrooms, the advent of 30-100 Gbps connectivity via satellite will redefine broadband "access." Indeed, more than half of the world's satellite operators have ordered (or plan to order) high-capacity satellites, and 14 million households and 50% of enterprise terminals are predicted to be using high-capacity satellite platforms by 2020. Part of this is due to pure economics associated with the cost of such services.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2102374

 

[Stargazer]

Dish could launch those LEO satellites but they can't use their bandwidth since its not for cellular use if I am not mistaken. They have 14 million customers that they could offer broadband to. Same with Directv, they also have this opportunity. If they offer cheap broadband they might not only get a high number of customers but to retain the ones they have in return helping growth of their satellite tv business. They could offer phones that use the LEO satellites as well. This is the triple play opportunity that they need.

 

[Lue]

Would like to see Charlie's hand! I started looking into the "Space Race" at hand, and find it amazing at all the players getting into the field. With the "Internet of Things" underway there is going to be an astounding amount of connectivity to be filled, I was amazed at all the spaceports that are being built right now. With the "internet of things" slated to be over 40 times the size of the human internet, there is going to be many new satellite providers enter the market. Have seen a lot of speculators say that the majority of TV will be delivered via broadband. I do not believe the current providers will be able to survive without a partner or change in tactics.

 

[Stargazer]

Those that drag their feet now will regret it later on. They better act now to get first dibs especially with the subscriber numbers that they currently have. The future of tv is on demand as well. Broadband is how everything will be broadcasted. TV and phone will be done over it and through LEO satellites. LEO will be lower in cost and attract more competition.

 

[Lue]

Might charlie be looking beyond TV's and phones? Google and Musk seem to be aiming at the bigger picture while providing low cost Broadband Internet as a side service. Has anybody out there had a chance to use Gooogle's DVR that records 8 channels at a time?

According to the US DNI 2030 Global Trends report, over 50% of the world will have 'middle class' income levels within fifteen years. In addition, GE estimates the Internet of Things will consume data from 100 trillion (that's Trillion) sensors by 2030. The battleground is bigger than smartphone service and Netflix streaming; precision agriculture drones surveying rural crop fields will communicate with grocery store inventories in cities. In other words, our stuff will have more conversations than we do. That's why Google's vision of a global internet makes sense. Charlie's spectrum holdings are looking like a goldmine.

http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf

 

[bigjohnok]

The thing with any company that is holding unused spectrum is that they are required by the FCC to use it or loose it.
This prevents companies from "banking" spectrum as a long term investment strategy.

 

[Lue]

All too clear now, With Dish's Broadband delivered TV service (Nu TV?) getting ready to debut any day now, appears they are readying their broadband tv platform for the future, a future with no hardware to be setup in customers homes, just a simple app on your tv, tablet, phone, etc. As channels are added to NuTV, the migration will begin to the broadband Dish service. Now if we can figure out where all the spectrum holdings are going to?? Looks like 4-5 years before the Google/Musk LEO satellite broadband network is up and running, Kymeta antenna has a contract to begin mass production in 2017. I agree with you, This is the next big thing!!

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/02/dishs-internet-tv-service-likely-to-be-called-nutv/

 

[Lue]

Dish could launch those LEO satellites but they can't use their bandwidth since its not for cellular use if I am not mistaken. They have 14 million customers that they could offer broadband to. Same with Directv, they also have this opportunity. If they offer cheap broadband they might not only get a high number of customers but to retain the ones they have in return helping growth of their satellite tv business. They could offer phones that use the LEO satellites as well. This is the triple play opportunity that they need.

I have seen anywhere from 14 Gbps up to 160 Gbps for The HTS (high throughput satellites) that SpaceX/Musk/Google are going to put up in LEO, with 700 (Wow) of them in orbit, how many subscribers could they handle at 10 down and 3 up for each subscriber? Anybody?
How many subscribers does dish have with their satellite mentioned below?

http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/09/27/dish-turns-on-satellite-broadband/

 

[Stargazer]

Dish also offers wireline service through local exchange carriers in 14 states—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. They will fold its wireline service into the dishNET brand. Wired dishNet packages start at $29.95 for 7 Mbps download, with upgrades to 12 Mbps for an additional $5 or 20 Mbps for $10 more.