Conventional BDU-based TV not going away any time soon while wireless faces spectrum shortage

By Perry Hoffman

THERE APPEARS TO BE LITTLE danger of conventional pay TV being bumped off its dominant perch among all media by over the top services. In fact, nearly all of North Americans will “continue to pay their pay TV subscriptions,” according to Deloitte’s annual technology, media and telecommunications predictions. During the Ottawa presentation of the 2013 predictions, Duncan Stewart, director of research Deloitte Canada and author of the report, noted that the number of people who pay for television in the U.S. and Canada is not down 10% or 5%, it’s actually up about 264,000 people in the last year. But,...