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On Wed, April 14, 2010 8:35 am, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Richard Chirgwin
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>wrote:
>
>> I can't help but ask the dog-in-the-manger question.
>>
>> There's been more than ten years, I suppose, of "the Internet will kill
>> TV". Everything about TV was seen as wrong: the content was crap (mostly
>> I agree), the model of the passive viewer is outdated, etc ...
>>
>
> "Estimate: 800,000 U.S. Households Abandoned Their TVs For The Web"
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/13/800000-households-abandoned-tvs-web/
>
> "... last year an estimated 800,000 U.S. households cut the cable cord
> altogether, according to a new report by the Convergence Consulting Group.
> By the end of next year, that number is forecast to double to 1.6
> million."
>
>
> Of course, there is a real difference between the US and Australia (and
> most
> of the rest of the world) in terms of the proliferation of cable/etc TV
> and
> the lack of (easy) availability of Free-To-Air TV which gives a much
> higher
> incentive to "cut the cord" due to the monthly recurring costs.
>


It's over five million in France.
http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=9934 It's in French, but you can Google
translate it. Refer to section 2.4 L’accès à Internet et à la télévision
par ADSL