Sling Media Sells Out to EchoStar
The EchoStar -> Sling deal is going to put some focus on the weird state of broadband in the US. We have disparate upstream bandwidth to downstream, and ISP’s imposing limits rather than improving their own infrastructure. I love my Sling devices, but we use them 90% of the time for slinging our HDTV feed from DirectTV to other computers in the house rather than out to the world. Location-free TV is a great thing, but limited by shitty bandwidth.