Tamashima TV

Tamashima TV is a small Okayama cable operator with a larger economic question inside it. Its future does not rest on nostalgia for community television alone, or on the fact that public routing records attach AS23775 to the company. It rests on whether a local operator can turn a fibre-upgraded access network, a trusted support desk, a community channel, a mobile-carrier wholesale partnership and a household bundle into enough recurring cash to survive national broadband substitution in a mature Japanese market.