"David Looser" wrote in message

"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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Perhaps it won't but what I'm saying is that mobile broadband
internet
radio will become more popular than portable radio receivers,
whether AM,
FM or DAB. If adequate quality for the purpose is available at only
32kbps, then bandwidth is no bar to this developing.


Broadcasting covers large areas at low cost, mobile broadband covers
small
areas at high cost.


There are broadcast standards for the mobile phone networks, you know.
There's teh MBMS standard for 3G now, and the upgrade of that
(evolved-MBMS, or eMBMS) isn't long away, and that includes large-area
coverage using single-frequency networks, like what DAB uses.


If you are right, then the mobile networks will have
serious problems in coping with the bandwidth demand within the
allocated
radio spectrum.


No, they could just deploy eMBMS.


Unlike wire-based broadband you can't just run in extra
capacity, the only option is to further sub-divide the cells, which
is
very expensive.


eMBMS can cover multiple cells.




--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm