From: Some@Guy.com   
      
   JF Mezei wrote:   
      
   > The Globe has a good art8icle on the challenges faced by Rogers.   
      
   As I read that entire story, I was beginning to think Rogers wasn't in   
   the ISP business.  The internet was only mentioned in the second-last   
   paragraph.   
      
   > My guess is that the quicker Rogers can get rid of old analogue   
   > signals, the quickler it can launch now digital services on its   
   > cable.   
      
   You are dreaming.   
      
   Rogers has had pay-per-view and video-on-demand for years.  What more is   
   it going to get by cutting some analog channels?   
      
   If it can't squeeze more money out of PPV/VOD, how exactly is it going   
   to get more money out of axing a few analog channels?   
      
   Rogers can already offer what - 50 to 80 mbps TCP/IP to end customers?   
   Why isin't it being more creative with that existing capacity?   
      
   They know there's no more content they can sell over cable to people's   
   homes.  They keep focusing on what they can do with wireless / cellular   
   networks and portable devices.   
      
   And I keep wondering why no hand-held device company is putting ATSC   
   tuners in their products.   
      
   Will RIM die a horrible death and STILL not put a block-buster /   
   game-changer in their phones or tablet (like OTA tv) as a last ditch   
   effort to stay alive?   
      
   I would find something like a tablet with integrated ATSC tuner   
   something that would actually make me pause and consider owning it.   
      
   I once had the use of a company cell phone between 2001 and 2006 (dumb   
   panasonic analog phone as a secondary cell phone that I think was   
   costing $10 a month).  Rogers phased out analog cell service and I   
   cancelled.  I rarely used the phone, and since then I don't own a cell   
   phone.  I don't own any iSlave device.  I don't have "digital" cable.   
   I'm not into sports at all.   
      
   I've never owned a satellite receiver.  I think a the vast majority of   
   material on cable TV is complete junk.  I haven't been inside a movie   
   theater in at least 10 years.  I don't read books (real or electronic).   
   I have no magazine subscriptions (but I download a few magazines a month   
   from file-lockers, and at least 1/2 dozen music CD's or movies a week -   
   all free).  I have no newspaper subscriptions.  I'm in my 40's and I   
   have a TON of money available to spend.   
      
   So given all that - what new product or service can Rogers or Bell   
   possibly offer me that I would find desirable?   
      
   Certainly nothing that would require doing away with analog cable   
   channels.   
      
   Why isin't Rogers or Bell trying to figure out how they can tap into me   
   - above and beyond the analog cable service I get from Rogers or the   
   POTS line with legacy (unlimited) Sympatico DSL 7-meg sync I get from   
   Bell?   
      
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