@KIMAJY wrote:
@TimmyBGood well then, if they don't have to monetize satellites they ought to be planning to slash the cost of their future services down to sensible levels, i.e. about a third of what they are now.
Quite possibly, but Sky is three times older than the streaming companies and was founded in a very different environment, so downscaling the business to the extent needed to cope with that kind of income reduction would be extremely painful.
By the time they abandon fixed phone lines and dispense with satellite dishes, the next significant solar flare is going to bring everything to a standstill.
Failure of digital systems is something we are all going to have to anticipate. That doesn't negate the fact that one-way satellite broadcasting is a technology which has had a good innings, but is now approaching the end of its era.
It's bad enough being told in an area where BT's "always on" latest Fusion internet package relies on a mobile phone signal that doesn't reach indoors here (and is therefore defunkt in the box from Day 1) ... but how, pray, are the elderly and infirm going to manage on a backup mobile telehone handset that doesn't work
That's supposed to be the remit of Ofcom, but realistically they can't anticipate every individual circumstance. Never the less, PSTN switch-off is almost certainly going to happen.
? The potholed road network is a symbol of what's happened as a result of a failure to invest and maintain infrastructure - so it all goes digital and one of these days we will all learn why that was such a disastrous decision by a short-sighted technology-dependent generation with no vision or imagination.
Two different things there, I'd suggest. It's in the interest of network providers to maintain their infrastructure (unlike local authority road repairs) but that doesn't negate the fundamental vulnerability of such things to external forces.
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