Re: Qualcomm's MediaFLO Mobile TV System


Richard L wrote:
> In message <1122595952.721182.281240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> steve41@google_groups wrote:

> > The other main mobile phone network, O2, are
> > backing DVB-H and look like they're happy to wait for the spectrum to
> > become available in 2008.
>
> O2 is participating in a commercial trial of DVB-H -- to find whether
> it can be made to work commercially. That's not quite the same as
> saying O2 is backing it.


I suggest you Google for comments made by O2's CTO about DVB-H.


> > Texas Instruments are predicting that 70% of mobile phones will have
> > the ability to receive mobile TV within the next few years, so it
> > doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that subscription mobile TV
> > has got a very good chance of being profitable.
>
> And nearly 100 per cent of phones have WAP in them.


alt.radio.digital Poetry of the Day:

WAP is crap.

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