Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
FLO is being positioned as an alternative to DVB-H and can operate on CDMA200, 1x EV-DO and WCDMA networks. According to Qualcomm, "compared to other multicast technologies, FLO technology is designed specifically for use in mobile devices where low battery power consumption is critical, enabling it to offer superior mobility, power efficiency and coverage characteristics - considerations that are fundamental to the mobile handheld consumer usage environment."
Complementary to these technologies is Qualcomm's MediaFLO content distribution system, announced in March 2004. It is designed to make intelligent decisions about when to send content over a network made up of any number of different wireless technologies, including FLO and EV-DO Platinum Multicast. "In particular, the MediaFLO system allows operators to transmit unicast or multicast content over their cellular networks and seamlessly combine it with multicast content transmitted using the FLO technology," Qualcomm says.
Qualcomm has built a US-wide MediaFLO network will be able to support between 50 and 100 channels of national and local content, including as many as 15 live streaming channels in addition to ones featuring video clips and audio. US telco Verizon recently launched a mobile TV service in 20 markets in the US on the MediaFLO network.
Qualcomm and British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB) announced plans in May 2006 to conduct the first technical trials in Europe of FLO and MediaFLO in the UK. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4239/127/
3GPP - the WCDMA 3G standards body has developed Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS. It will be available both for GSM/EDGE and WCDMA.
Another contender is Huawei Cell Multimedia Broadcast (CMB) technology, billed as a simplified version of MBMS. This has been deployed in Hong King by PCCW.
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
LATEST HEADLINES FROM YOUR IT
