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Chrysler redefines radio.

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Chrysler will be offering in-car internet later this year. "We want to make the radio itself a WiFi port," said Frank Klegon, Chrysler's product development chief.

More from Orbitcast:
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/chrysler-offering-incar-internet-later-this-year.html

Background:
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/why-internet-radio-in-cars-is-coming-soon-than-you-think.html

Comments from Mark Ramsey on this news from Chrysler and how this relates to HD Radio here:
http://www.hear2.com/2008/03/chrysler-redefi.html

This is the kind of stuff I've been hammering on. Radio's future is on the WWWeb. Not from a six-tower array or even from atop a tower with a line-of-sight signal. Even more so, HD Radio and even Satellite Radio have been trumped by the Internet. How about your comments?
 
I'm listening to internet radio right now, Classic Jazz Corner, live 365, it's not wifi, but is close enough. It's all classic jazz from the 50's and 60's. Right at this moment they're playing something from Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Cannonball's blowing that alto. There are a few unobnoxious commercials on it also (because I don't contribute as of yet) but they don't bother me at all as there are not 339 of them in a row.
 
It's not as if the traditional radio industry apologists had any ground to stand on before, but now they have even less (and it seems to be eroding day after day). Those who are still gung-ho about AM/FM radio to the death better take note: your precious medium is irrelevant, and until you do something about that, your future is non-existent.
 
Problem: Good idea for Chrysler. Bad idea for cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco and Los Angeles ... since municipal WiFi plans have crashed and burned. What was to be reliable, affordable WiFi on a city-wide basis has collapsed ... after promises that we would see it in the next year or two.

Cities have not been able to get it together to do the project. Companies have not been able to agree on how to charge. Corporations haven't yet figured out how to make a profit on it. Hence, the proposals now sit in deep water, going nowhere.

The idea is a great one ... but telephone companies are vehemently against the proposed idea ... and why the want cellular WiFi, as they infrastructure, billing, cost basis is already there.

It's going to be a battle ... and a mess ... to see muni WiFi unroll as was expected. Not a help to new cars or our wallets.
 
oaktree said:
Problem:  Good idea for Chrysler.  Bad idea for cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco and Los Angeles ... since municipal WiFi plans have crashed and burned.  What was to be reliable, affordable WiFi on a city-wide basis has collapsed ... after promises that we would see it in the next year or two. 

Cities have not been able to get it together to do the project.  Companies have not been able to agree on how to charge.  Corporations haven't yet figured out how to make a profit on it.  Hence, the proposals now sit in deep water, going nowhere.

The idea is a great one ... but telephone companies are vehemently against the proposed idea ... and why the want cellular WiFi, as they infrastructure, billing, cost basis is already there.

It's going to be a battle ... and a mess ... to see muni WiFi unroll as was expected.  Not a help to new cars or our wallets.
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I never thought Wi-Fi would be the primary method used to make mobile wireless Internet access ubiquitous. Chrysler will be starting off with 3G solutions, graduating to 4G solutions such as WIMAX and LTE. Wi-Fi will be used to communicate with wireless devices inside and in the vicinity of the car.

Meanwhile, Google has proposed something they are calling Wi-Fi 2.0. 

"Google has unveiled plans to use the "White Space" between television channels in the US to create a " Wi-Fi 2.0 or Wi-Fi on steroids"....in hopes of enabling more widespread, affordable Internet access over the airwaves....[which would] become available in February 2009, when TV broadcasters switch from analog to digital signals....Google said the "white space", located between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets that aren't hooked up to satellite or cable services, offer a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless broadband access to all Americans."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/article/tech/0,,91221-13591,00.html
 
The Washington Post is reporting that Chrysler will use a cellular signal and a mobile phone account to give passengers access to the web.

We're talking Chrysler ... not Mercedes-Benz.

It will take "years" for full connectivity. I like the Google idea, but they missed a high enough bid in last week's FCC auction for spectrum space of the soon be be deleted analog TV channels.
 
oaktree said:
The Washington Post is reporting that Chrysler will use a cellular signal and a mobile phone account to give passengers access to the web.

We're talking Chrysler ... not Mercedes-Benz.

It will take "years" for full connectivity.  I like the Google idea, but they missed a high enough bid in last week's FCC auction for  spectrum space of the soon be be deleted analog TV channels.
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When they say a "cellular signal", it would have been more accurate to write a "data signal" such as EVDO or Edge usually provided by a cell phone company. The data services are usually located on the same cell towers used for voice calls, but the service and technology is a separate one. The maturing 3G technology is already deployed nationwide and will soon be eclipsed by 4G technologies such as WIMAX and LTE.
 
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