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On this page are news items of yesteryears.Some of  the projections and predictions stand demolished and hence thier place in the Archives! 

( Items in Archieve are moved from current pages periodically)

Sprint Announces Mobile WiMAX Services- To be marketed as XOHM

 
Sprint has been building the largest single Mobile WiMAX network using the 2.5 GHz band which has already seen successful trials. They are the largest holders of spectrum in this band by virtue of previous holdings and the acquisition of additional spectrum on AT&T Bellsouth merger. It is now known that this will be sold as XOHM.
The WiMAX network being rolled out by the combine is going live  Chicago, Washington and Baltimore in the initial phase and will be nationwide by end of 2008 (have a reach of over 100 million in over 16 cities). The tie ups for the equipment, TV technology and the client devices have been made. These involve Motorola, Samsung and Nokia for the equipment and Samsung, Motorola and Intel for the chipsets and user devices. The TV technology is provided by the NDS WiMAX TV portfolio of products.
The network being based on universal mobile WiMAX technology will permit a broad range of devices from portable media players to PCs and various WiMAX cellphones, WiFi, cellular and internet WiMAX enabled devices to offer services ranging from VoIP to WiMAX TV.
Sprint intends to offer services in a dual mode manner to its existing CDMA subscribers as Wimax-CDMA services.It was at some stage felt that Sprint-Clearwire breakup will affect the rollout, but that does not expect to be the case.UMPCs and Nokia 810 Notebooks as well as other devices, PC cards and USB adopters will be the way to go before standalone devices make glorious debuts.

( Based on industry reports)

MobiTV to provide Mobile TV over WiMAX?

MobiTV is one of the largest aggregators of content for mobile TV. It aggregates content and provides it through a network of cellular operators.It also provides content via the AT&T broadband network ( WiFi) to PCs, PDAs and mobile devices.

MobiTV is now understood to be extending the delivery of program channels via WiMAX networks as well. For this purpose it has identified a three way arrangement as follows:
Content, Streaming infrastructure and MobiTV application: To be provided by MobiTV
Content protection and Service Protection: To be provided by NDS
Mobile WiMAX infrastructure: To be provided by Runcom
The new service, MobiBlu is designed as a two way interactive service and provides a Unicast and multicast of the channels in different resolutions ( for mobile phones, PDAs and PCs).The service is at the full broadcast frame rate of 30 fps and 640x480 resolution. It uses the NDS encryption for transmission security and NDS DRM for content security.

 

Will we see the service on the Sprint Network with MobiTV provided user interfaces soon?

It certainly appears to be so.

WiMAX TV demonstrated at IBC 2007

The demonstration of WiMAX TV at IBC which used the encoding platforms based on H.264 from EnvivioŽ mobile TV encoders showcased in exemplary clarity how mobile WIMAX operators can leverage their networks to deliver streaming TV services. The TV services were delivered to multiple screens( TVs, PCs and mobile Phones) using the same mobile WiMAX network.

The fact that mobile WiMAX also brings high speed broadband along with streaming multimedia services places it in a different class altogether. Being based on open IETF, IEEE and WiMAX forum standards, it presents new opportunities in the mobile TV space crowded by multiple standards.