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Qualcomm wants TV stations off analog channels
Qualcomm, which stands to lose if the transition to DTV is delayed, sent a letter to several lawmakers asking them to force nine TV stations in Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Houston to stop transmitting in the analog channels Qualcomm wants to use for its MediaFLO mobile TV service. Article
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Posted by StaticAcrossAmerica | January 22, 2009 - 3:27pm
Qualcomm has an understandable interest in controlling the bandwidth that it's paid (lots) for, but including Houston on this list might be tricky -- Nielsen lists Houston as the American city least prepared for the DTV transition.
Posted by Quemann | January 27, 2009 - 3:56pm
DMB, the first-ever mobile TV standard, has got over 12 million subscribers in Korea since March 2005, but still hasn't reached the B.E. point yet.
Could MediaFLO reach a B.E. point in time? I wonder.
MediaFLO is a one-way broadcasting and may face growing competition from two-way multimedia operations on AWS channels later on.
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