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Where to start with this one. The good news is it hints at separation of both Telstra retail, wholesale and FOXTEL.
Topline is BigPond have finally realised that it’s a galactic shit-fight to use any of their media properties via the BigPond portal. Or you pay (again) for the underwhelming experience of watching the same dirge on your Telstra phone at 1/10th the quality. Or just watch it on Channel 7.
Now they want an IPTV system (that actually works) to deliver them.
The FOXTEL platform is effectively that, but is known as “Pay TV” and partly owned by others, so that ticket is clipped.
So if the NBN is a new Telstra, then BigPond TV is the new FOXTEL? Confused?
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I’ve always held the opinion that, if a “Pay TV” company had any sort of control over a countries Broadband network, then they would do everything within there power to stop people being able to stream high quality “Free” video content over said network.
That’s one of the reasons why I think Telstra should not have control over the network.
Telstra’s IPTV sounds like a classic oxymoron.
Sharing my opinion.
Cheers
James.
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