[opendtv] Re: NAB: FCC's Wheeler Piles on Praise for Broadcasting | Broadcasting & Cable

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:57:49 +0000

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

If there was a hardware difference it was primarily the radio
frequencies each uses;

That's exactly what I said, Craig. The different cellcos have control over the
phones they sell. If they don't want your phones to tune to any hypothetical TV
broadcaster frequencies directly, they will prevent that from happening.

Your mantra has been that all the broadcasters have to do is to use LTE. That's
wrong.

1. The cellcos won't support frequencies that don't make them revenues.

2. The broadcasters would have to deploy a considerably dense mesh of their own
transmitters, even if they could find room on existing sticks, to cover the
same market areas they are covering today.

3. To support the same number of channels as ATSC provides, in the same or less
frequency spectrum, for mobile broadcast service, exacerbates #2 quite a bit.
So I doubt that's the best approach.

As things are in US cell service, #1 is not likely to happen anytime soon, and
#2 and #3 are quite an expensive proposition, for FOTA TV. Read that report you
have and do the arithmetic. Paying attention to the premises made on receivers,
in that report.

Bert



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