[BC] Mobile streaming - who needs IBOC?

[Robert Meuser]

The G3 devices out are connectionless for data and many can play MP3s. 
The problem is that unless you need the data connectivity for other 
reasons, you end up paying a monthly fee.

R


R J Carpenter wrote:

> The problem I see is that all the present mobile phone protocols 
> involve "connections"   Part of the reliability is doubtless due toi 
> repeating damaged packets.
>
> I contend that a connectionless protocol will be needed in order to 
> handle many thousands of simultaneous broadcast users.  It will have 
> to have very strong forward error correction like the satcasters'.
>
> By now all the technology is in hand, it just isn't on any mobile 
> phone system as far as I know.
>
> BTW, I've talked to an engineer at a DC-area station who has done 
> about the same experiment as Goran.
>
> bob c.
>
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