Qualcomm Reveals Plans for Massive U.S. Mobile Video Network
Not So Sure About This
Who is going put entirely new chips in their phone? That adds cost and the volume potential seems limited in regards to driving cost down.
Why not integrate a digital radio or TV reciever into the phone as TI intends to do. Then you get free content and you can sell lots and lots of digital TV/cellular chip sets?
I just don't know about this. It might be that the operators realy want this and asked for it but i have doubts.
viper said:
Wait just a minute. Was 3G not supposed to do this for us. Why do we need another network?
Not exactly. 3G is great for video-on-demand, but not so much for live TV content.
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Yes!!!
No really, it is, and especially cool since Sprint and Verizon will have first dibs on it - I mean, what carriers have any remotely known plans for a WCDMA network here in the USA? w00t!
And this actually doesn't have that much to do with WCDMA...
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