DirecTV: We’re Not Stalling Wireless Broadband

DIRECTV: WE'RE NOT STALLING WIRELESS BROADBAND
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Mike Farrell]
DirecTV Group continues to work on its own broadband strategy, with management telling analysts Wednesday that while wireless-broadband technology seems to be the way to go, delays in deploying the technology have more to do with the slow development of wireless products than foot-dragging by the direct-broadcast satellite giant. “The reality is that there is a misperception that the Wi-Max businesses are waiting for us to grow,” DirecTV CEO Chase Carey said on a conference call with analysts to discuss third-quarter results. “Wi-Max today is more in a stage of technological development and infrastructure development,” he added. “Our real value to it is distribution. We’re not developing the Wi-Max -- it’s the Intels and the Qualcomms and the Motorolas and the Samsungs and the Ciscos. Those are the guys that are advancing wireless broadband today.”
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