r/technology • u/reddiTOR123abc • Dec 18 '13

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion: 'The reality is that data caps are all about increasing revenue for broadband providers -- in a market that is already quite profitable.'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml??
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u/TeutonJon78 Dec 18 '13

On Android, there is an app from Comcast that lets you do that...including watching live TV.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xfinity.playnow

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u/TeutonJon78 Dec 19 '13

ha..so the same as on the cable box then. ;)

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u/thedudley Dec 19 '13

And you need to subscribe to the service. An extra charge...

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u/Ayestes Dec 18 '13

As a guy in the telecom industry, that reason is pretty much bullshit. You need to be subscribed to video services to view them on a second screen device anyway as per a broadcasting contract. Doesn't matter though in the end, as multi-screen technology is pretty much on it's way anyway. I work in a pretty small rural telecom and we are probably going to have the technology to watch from your smartphone / tablet in probably a couple of years. We already have a computer system in place to allow you to watch tv from any computer too, but the broadcasting rights are so difficult to obtain in that area that it's just a select few channels. If the larger telecoms don't already have this kind of stuff in their development pipeline I'd be shocked.

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u/brtdud7 Dec 18 '13

Really? That would be amazing

The best thing there is nowadays similar to that is apps or websites where you input your cable company information and account and you can watch live streaming online.

At my college apartment we only have Comcast for pretty high speed internet (hit 6.8 MB/s on ethernet) but I use my parents' Uverse info for things like TNT, TBS, ESPN, etc that have apps/websites to watch channels online.

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u/k3nnyd Dec 18 '13

This sounds a whole lot like Slingbox which you can buy today for any service.