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Students Use 802.11g To Save Cable Industry

Posted by michael on from the in-your-dreams dept.

LiquidFun writes "Business undergraduates at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business have written an e-business case for one of their case competitions that describes how to use 802.11g wireless technology to distribute cable content, both interactive and broadcast, throughout the home. They mention features like video-on-demand, cable gaming, etc. and even provide enough of the technical specifications necessary to start believing that this could work. They even make available their PowerPoint presentation that they presented to judges from both Cisco & Deloitte Consulting. I'd say a pretty good job for third-year undergrads."

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  1. No Thanks by jlund · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am a satellite customer for a few reasons.

    1. The picture for "digital cable" sucks. Can they compress the image any more? Talk about MPEG artifacts.
    2. I subscribed to AT&T cable, phone, and cable modem... 3 separate bills. Give me a break. It is perhaps unfair as I canceled shortly after Comcast took over for AT&T, but I doubt they combine the bills yet.
    3. Now that I have DSL I can fire up a web server and not be violating a stupid EULA.

    I have three bills still, but I am never confused about not making a payment to one of them as they are not all called AT&T Broadband.

    Since games are of no interest to me and my phone (wireless) has nationwide calling plan with enough "free" minutes, that simply removes two of the three reasons. As I stated before, the picture quality from my DirecTV dish rivals my former "digital" cable.