What's Next in Telecommunications?

CNet is reporting that with the telecommunication industry's annual powwow coming up the hot button seems to be television rather than phones. From the article: "Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it's easy to see that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change. The traditional telecommunications market has already begun consolidating in anticipation. [...] Putting itself back together two decades after being broken apart, the new AT&T faces an entirely different competitive environment. Phone companies and cable companies will soon be competing directly with each other not just for broadband customers, but also for TV and phone customers."

Comments

Interesting choice of word

[Weaselmancer]

Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it's easy to see that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change.

Cataclysmic? Not so sure the telcos and big media companies would enjoy that word very much. A cataclysm killed the dinosaurs, you know.

Re:Old fogeys...

[pandrijeczko]

SUVs

Now *THERE'S* something with useless features no-one ever uses...

I'd make SUV owners pay ten times the taxes on fuel if they continue to use the roads - let them have fuel at the same prices as us "road car" owners if they go cross-country wherever they go. (In which case, of course, the SUV's suspension would be shot to hell within a year, the owners would realise they'd made a big mistake buying one & can go back to being less selfish and buy a normal car.)

SUV owners? Put them on their own desert island with their vehicles and spray them orange - hanging is too good for them...