With all of our talk about the Quickplayer and how excited we are about it, it’s news like this that helps us justify why we get so lovey-dovey over mobile broadcasting. Cellular News reports that by the end of 2007, there will be over four million subscribers to mobile broadcast services, and that number jumping to an impressive 514 million by 2011.
Senior analyst Ken Hyers reports that recent conversations with major carriers confirmed what ABI Research expected: “The presence of as few as five users simultaneously receiving unicast content from a single cellular base station carrier band can seriously degrade data access for those subscribers. This is further confirmation that broadcast is the only way to get mass market uptake of these services. Already, the market is bearing out that broadcast is the essential method for offering these services.”
