"Here comes WiMAX" - there goes HD Radio !

[SayNoToIBOC]

From Mark Ramsey:

"Here comes WiMAX"

To paraphrase the great Bette Davis, fasten your seatbelts, we're in for a bumpy ride.

From eMarketer:

Sprint/Nextel, in partnership with Intel, Motorola and Samsung, will roll out a mobile WiMAX network (a technology also known as 802.11e) at a cost of $3 billion; it is expected to be available to 100 million Americans by 2008. While Wi-Fi provides "hotspots" of high bandwidth in particular locations, WiMAX becomes the moveable hotspot. Applications such as mobile VoIP, Internet radio and video as well as mobile business services will all get a boost from the introduction of WiMAX. It would appear that the always-on, wherever-you-are broadband network is set to become a reality.

 

[SayNoToIBOC]

Wrong Danny - this has a direct affect on HD Radio's future, but you don't want to see it ! You have been reported to the moderators for name-calling.

 

[SayNoToIBOC]

From RWOnline today:

"Bridge: HD Radio Will Impact Satellite Growth; Wi-Max in Cars by '08"

Bridge Ratings has downgraded its subscriber projections for XM while revising figures upward for Sirius. Barring further changes in consumer brand awareness, product preference and retail and auto sales, the company believes Sirius will surpass XM subscriber counts by 2009. The compiled data indicates that at this point, projected subscribers to satellite radio should reach 34 million by 2010 and 60 million by 2020. However, projections for HD Radio's growth have HD improving to 26 million by 2020. Bridge says the advent of HD and increasing growth of Internet radio will slow original growth projections for satellite radio. Yet that gain may be short-lived, as Internet radio will greatly benefit from pervasive Wi-Max or wide-area wireless access, which will bring Internet radio to portable devices, including car radios, by 2008.

Yup, Wi-Max is going to be HD Radio's killer app !

 

[dbdigital]

From RWOnline today:

"Bridge: HD Radio Will Impact Satellite Growth; Wi-Max in Cars by '08"

Bridge Ratings has downgraded its subscriber projections for XM while revising figures upward for Sirius. Barring further changes in consumer brand awareness, product preference and retail and auto sales, the company believes Sirius will surpass XM subscriber counts by 2009. The compiled data indicates that at this point, projected subscribers to satellite radio should reach 34 million by 2010 and 60 million by 2020. However, projections for HD Radio's growth have HD improving to 26 million by 2020. Bridge says the advent of HD and increasing growth of Internet radio will slow original growth projections for satellite radio. Yet that gain may be short-lived, as Internet radio will greatly benefit from pervasive Wi-Max or wide-area wireless access, which will bring Internet radio to portable devices, including car radios, by 2008.

Yup, Wi-Max is going to be HD Radio's killer app !

If this chart is to be believed, internet radio's growth will be phenomenal; spurred on, no doubt, by future multi-tasking (phone/audio player/camera/WiMAX) handheld devices :

http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_031006-digitalprojectionsupdwradio.htm

On a different topic: with all of the speculation surrounding the FCC's take on IBOC interference and why this technology was even approved, it would be great if someone could go to the up coming FCC breakfast being held on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas and ask the tough questions.

FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell will be there and, apparently, will be taking audience questions.

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[IBOCRocks]

From RWOnline today:

"Bridge: HD Radio Will Impact Satellite Growth; Wi-Max in Cars by '08"

Bridge Ratings has downgraded its subscriber projections for XM while revising figures upward for Sirius. Barring further changes in consumer brand awareness, product preference and retail and auto sales, the company believes Sirius will surpass XM subscriber counts by 2009. The compiled data indicates that at this point, projected subscribers to satellite radio should reach 34 million by 2010 and 60 million by 2020. However, projections for HD Radio's growth have HD improving to 26 million by 2020. Bridge says the advent of HD and increasing growth of Internet radio will slow original growth projections for satellite radio. Yet that gain may be short-lived, as Internet radio will greatly benefit from pervasive Wi-Max or wide-area wireless access, which will bring Internet radio to portable devices, including car radios, by 2008.

Yup, Wi-Max is going to be HD Radio's killer app !

If this chart is to be believed, internet radio's growth will be phenomenal; spurred on, no doubt, by future multi-tasking (phone/audio player/camera/WiMAX) handheld devices :

http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_031006-digitalprojectionsupdwradio.htm

On a different topic: with all of the speculation surrounding the FCC's take on IBOC interference and why this technology was even approved, it would be great if someone could go to the up coming FCC breakfast being held on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas and ask the tough questions.

FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell will be there and, apparently, will be taking audience questions.

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Yes, someone please do! I'd love to hear their comments!

 

[pullitin]

HEY SAY NO. WHO CARES? YOU KNOW I POSTED THAT I LOVED HD RADIO, YOU REPORTED IT, WHY DONT I JUST REPORT THIS THREAD SINCE YOU KILLED THESE FORMS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

 

[SayNoToIBOC]

I must give all of you credit, for trying about every trick in the book (insults, threats, etc.), to get me off this board - but you know, I am so thrilled to be able to make an impact, I feel like I am going to bust !

 

[SayNoToIBOC]

"Sprint Radio Launches With More Than 50 Channels"

"Sprint Radio is offered on select handsets across all three of Sprint's networks."

http://www.radioink.com/headlineentry.asp?hid=134953&pt=inkheadlines

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

with all of the speculation surrounding the FCC's take on IBOC interference and why this technology was even approved, it would be great if someone could go to the up coming FCC breakfast being held on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas and ask the tough questions.

FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell will be there and, apparently, will be taking audience questions.

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If someone does ask them questions, they shouldn't expect much. FCC commissioners are not tech-savvy. They are mostly career government workers or politically connected lawyers. They have to have staff members brief them on technical matters.

 

[dbdigital]

From Mark Ramsey:

"Here comes WiMAX"

To paraphrase the great Bette Davis, fasten your seatbelts, we're in for a bumpy ride.

From eMarketer:

Sprint/Nextel, in partnership with Intel, Motorola and Samsung, will roll out a mobile WiMAX network (a technology also known as 802.11e) at a cost of $3 billion; it is expected to be available to 100 million Americans by 2008. While Wi-Fi provides "hotspots" of high bandwidth in particular locations, WiMAX becomes the moveable hotspot. Applications such as mobile VoIP, Internet radio and video as well as mobile business services will all get a boost from the introduction of WiMAX. It would appear that the always-on, wherever-you-are broadband network is set to become a reality.

In connection with what SayNo quoted about WiMAX there is a wonderfully written paper by Jim Snider from the New America Foundation entitled: "How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: The Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina."

While the paper primarily discusses how commercial broadcasters exploit crises as a way to deflect criticism for the rest of the time when they don't provide much public service as well as how the NAB uses the emergency information claim to manipulate the legislative process for its own ends, it did have much to say about satellite and the internet and their role in public service communications during emergencies.

I especially liked this point concerning communications and the 9/11 and Katrina disasters:

"These crises demonstrated that the platform independent Internet was the most robust
source of terrestrially delivered emergency information, and satellite the most robust
source of broadcast delivered emergency information. The Internet was designed to
survive a nuclear catastrophe by deploying a decentralized network that could instantly
route around any bottlenecks, and satellite transmission was completely unaffected by the
terrestrial based disruptions of 9/11 and Katrina. To the extent that people lacked electric
power to run their satellite receivers, this was a problem that also affected other
communications providers. Satellite radio can run on car power and batteries just like
terrestrial radio, and some portable satellite radios are as small as an iPod."

Among his many recommendations:

"The government should reallocate spectrum from broadcast services to Internet based broadband services that are not only what consumers increasingly demand but are increasingly more efficient, flexible, and robust for emergency information services." He also advocates the elimination of laws that discriminate against free, local satellite broadcasting.

Download Mr. Snider's entire paper here:

http://www.diymedia.net/

It's amazing reading.

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[dbdigital]

with all of the speculation surrounding the FCC's take on IBOC interference and why this technology was even approved, it would be great if someone could go to the up coming FCC breakfast being held on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas and ask the tough questions.

FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell will be there and, apparently, will be taking audience questions.

db

If someone does ask them questions, they shouldn't expect much. FCC commissioners are not tech-savvy. They are mostly career government workers or politically connected lawyers. They have to have staff members brief them on technical matters.

True, they're lawyers. However, it's not technical questions but FCC policy questions or questions on pending decisions surrounding IBOC that should be asked.

As FCC commissioners they, among anyone, would be in the best postition to know the answers.

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[SaynotoIB0C]

I'm sorry folks, It will be years before wi-max covers any meaningful portion of america

 

[SayNoToIBOC]

SaynotoIBOC, you have been reported to management for masquerading as, SayNoToIBOC.

 

[SayNoToSayNoToIBOC]

From RWOnline today:

"Bridge: HD Radio Will Impact Satellite Growth; Wi-Max in Cars by '08"

Bridge Ratings has downgraded its subscriber projections for XM while revising figures upward for Sirius. Barring further changes in consumer brand awareness, product preference and retail and auto sales, the company believes Sirius will surpass XM subscriber counts by 2009. The compiled data indicates that at this point, projected subscribers to satellite radio should reach 34 million by 2010 and 60 million by 2020. However, projections for HD Radio's growth have HD improving to 26 million by 2020. Bridge says the advent of HD and increasing growth of Internet radio will slow original growth projections for satellite radio. Yet that gain may be short-lived, as Internet radio will greatly benefit from pervasive Wi-Max or wide-area wireless access, which will bring Internet radio to portable devices, including car radios, by 2008.

Yup, Wi-Max is going to be HD Radio's killer app !

Looks like you are asnwerign your own posts now. Talking to yourself??? The men in the white coats are waiting!

 

[I.B. Iquity]

There was talk that SayNo was going to program his station playing only Jerry Samuels records. What a ratings grabber. Can You Dig It?

 

[SayNoToSayNoToIBOC]

There was talk that SayNo was going to program his station playing only Jerry Samuels records. What a ratings grabber. Can You Dig It?

Oh you mean with that Part 15 AM Stereo station?? I am sure the cat will enjoy that. Unless he is running illegally. Hmmmmmmm. Maybe those guys in the white coats are FCC!!!