Comments on: MediaFLO Coming to San Francisco in 2009

By: GigaOM Spring Cleaning: Motorola and Others Hit the Dustbin

GigaOM Spring Cleaning: Motorola and Others Hit the Dustbin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:32:03 +0000

[...] it can do to make its Snapdragon chip more competitive on the graphics side and how its bets on MediaFLO and Gobi play [...]

By: Delaying DTV could mean longer wait for LTE | Simple Solutions

Delaying DTV could mean longer wait for LTE | Simple Solutions — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:06:51 +0000

[...] occupied by those analog TV signals. Those services range from Verizon’s LTE deployment to Qualcomm’s plans to broadcast mobile digital televison in markets such as San Francisco and [...]

By: More, More and More » Blog Archive » Qualcomm Brings Mobile TV to 100 New Markets

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:17:24 +0000

[...] a dramatic expansion from the 63 available today. Sure, some of the markets are second-tier, but major ones getting coverage include San Francisco, Boston, Miami and Houston. Of course, coverage for more than 200 million people (up [...]

By: Delaying DTV Could Mean Longer Wait for LTE

Delaying DTV Could Mean Longer Wait for LTE — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:06:27 +0000

[...] occupied by those analog TV signals. Those services range from Verizon’s LTE deployment to Qualcomm’s plans to broadcast mobile digital televison in markets such as San Francisco and [...]

By: Qualcomm Brings Mobile TV to 100 New Markets « NewTeeVee

Qualcomm Brings Mobile TV to 100 New Markets « NewTeeVee — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:51:58 +0000

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:19:03 +0000

So long as carriers must pay to add FLO functionality to handsets and customers are charged for FLO, we will continue to see the adoption rates we have today (Nothing).

All one has to do, is look at the number of handsets T and VZ have that are FLO enabled and show will signal their confidence behind this service. Sorry QCOM, while I really like the quality of it, the business model is not going to workout. Further, until mobile TV adoption ramps up to warrant a broadcasting model, unicast will be just fine.

Sprint’s model is the correct model.It allows cost/scale and given the unicast nature, it allows Sprint to create interesting boomerang partnerships if they wanted to.

Also, I am amazed by the quality of Sprint’s TV recently. The newer handsets, have good quality with 2 sec channel change time. I was really very surprised.

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Wednesday Evening Links - | remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:23:40 +0000

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By: luis

luis — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:38:14 +0000

Once free digital signal arrives and is serviced like they do in Japan and revenues come from the data channel just below the video signal that is transmitted simultaneously. Mediaflow is over. Qualcomm needs to unload this asap. Its not their core nor in their DNA.