Broadband price wars

[RawAlex]

Toby, actually it's pretty funny. Bell Canada has been toying with IP-TV since abuot 2003, and so far it hasn't been a really great product.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Voice...23846d640.html

The intention is there, but it is a fairly hard sale because they aren't able to offer enough bandwidth to most people at this point. You need somewhere between 10 to 20mbps consistent to make regular HD work properly (that would be say 2 channels worth, one you are watching, and the one you are PVRing or watching in the other room). Most people are still pretty lucky to get a 10 mbps connection, and then luckier to even get to use 10% of it most of the time.

You need a FIOS style solution for the user end, and you need massive, massive amounts of upstream bandwidth to get the content to the end users neighborhood to start with. With Bell being sold recently, there is some hope they will green light the project, but it will take years (many, many years) before they have a hope of competing properly.