On Monday we didn’t just see the debut of the first College Football Playoff Championship Game. We also witnessed the first appearance of AT&T’s new LTE-Broadcast technology, which uses the 4G… Read more »
Here’s one possibility for repurposing old TV broadcast airwaves: You could use them for TV. Nokia is experimenting with sending traditional broadcast video to mobile phones using LTE. Read more »
If Aereo loses in court it’s done. But even if it wins there’s nothing to stop broadcasters themselves from eventually providing streaming access to their broadcast signals, potentially at no cost… Read more »
Verizon is using the biggest sporting event of the year to demonstrate a new multicast streaming technology. To see it its new broadcast network, though, you’ll have to go to NYC’s… Read more »
In 2014, carriers will tinker with some new network technologies. They’ll start broadcasting video, shrinking the size of their cells and moving voice calls onto LTE. They’ll even start connecting cars… Read more »
Telstra may have been first to try out the new technology, but we’ll likely see several other operators follow shortly. Verizon plans to use LTE-broadcast to stream live video from the… Read more »
AT&T is using old MediaFLO spectrum it bought off of Qualcomm to create a broadcast service. The mobile industry has had little success with multicast video in the past, but it… Read more »
Samsung has become the latest company to play fast and loose with 5G. It may have produced some impressive technology but it’s doing itself a huge disservice by conflating its accomplishment… Read more »
Verizon is seeing video on its mobile network surge. Though it surely would like to encourage the trend, there’s only so much video Verizon’s customers can consume without going broke. Read more »
Qualcomm’s big MediaFLO flop hasn’t dissuaded it from pursuing mobile TV. It’s championing a new technology called LTE-broadcast that purportedly solves FLO’s many problems. Read more »