Television is pretty simple. You turn on a screen, watch a show, and when done – turn off the screen. However, Ka-Tel will seek to bring television services to the 21st century. There will be a transition from OTA (Over The Air) television to terrestrial television. Since coaxial is considered as obsolete, all television channels will carry over the internet either with BPL (Broadband over Power Line), or fits. There will be 3 types of channels. There are network channels, cable channels, and premium channels. They all have advantages, and disadvantages. The channel numbers will be the same throughout the nation. In example, if there was NBC in the nation, and it is assigned channel 11, then NBC will be channel 11 throughout the entire country. If SyFy is channel 250, then it is channel 250 throughout the nation. All channels will carry over the WAN, and therefore will use either a fiber optic, or BPL service. This will eliminate the need for the channels to carry over the air waves. There might be a couple of exceptions in remote locations, but these areas will likely not have television to begin with.
The first type of channels is network channels Every station ID will receive their own channel, and will go from channel 2-100. Network channels must provide at least 3 hours of children education per week. This in turn will allow the network to not have to pay Ka-Tel for airing their station. The station will make the money from commercial ads that would display in breaks within the show. Since Ka-Tel is the only television provider, and they are also in charge of distributing the stations, it would make sense that these channels should be free. Ka-Tel will not charge the subscriber for channel access.
The second type of channel is cable channels. These are more specialized content that may or may not have commercials. Me, personally, I don’t see what the benefit of paying for television to watch commercials which will explain why I don’t have cable TV. Negotiations will be made between Ka-Tel, and the station owner. Ka-Tel will need to make a profit from these channels to be viable. Keep in mind, they must provide for low cost internet and telephone solutions which they do. The profits will help cover those costs.
The third type of channel is Premium cable. This will include channels such as HBO or Showtime. Like cable channels, negotiations will be made with the company to provide for service distribution. Unlike cable TV where the subscriber pays for all of the cable channels, premium cable channels will have an extra cost, and does not require cable TV to acquire premium cable channels. There will be conditions. Shows and movies will not be allowed to have commercials interrupting the screening. Commercials are allowed to be placed in between the slots of the show or movie.
The Ka-Tel TV app will be available for almost all smart TVs. This app will replace the need for a cable box. One would install the app, enter their account number, and password. The app will authenticate with Ka-Tel, and if accepted – they will see the stations they have rights to. By eliminating the cable box, there will be no need to have to worry about these devices, and maintain them. The subscriber just needs a smartTV, or a basic TV with a smartTV interface. This could be something as simple as a Roku TV stick, or as feature rich as an Apple TV box. New TVs will be either smart, or dumb. If one purchases a dumb TV, then they must have a smartTV adapter in order to view channels. No new TVs will have a coaxial port, but will be replaced with either RJ45 (smartTV), or HDMI (dumb TV). All smartTV adapters must have a RJ45-100MBPS connection to connect to the network.