[BC] Re: Mobile streaming - who needs IBOC?

[R J Carpenter]

Let me repeat, mobile streaming HAS to have a different protocol than 
that in use for telephone-like service.  It HAS to be a connectionless 
broadcast protocol with lots of forward error correction - like used 
by HD radio and the satcasters.

I don't see how a connection-oriented protocol like present cell 
services will ever be economically viable for broadcasting.

The two protocols should be able to coexist on the same cell system.

How to pay for it?  Just like satcasters' subscriptions - probably on 
your cell-phone bill.  Receivers would be individually addressable and 
a roster of "allowed" channels downloaded at infrequent intervale once 
past the initial activation.  It seems to me that the satcasters have 
essentially all the details worked out.  They just don't choose to 
authorize individual channels except for a few cases like XM's failed 
experiments with premium pricing.

bob c.