I think that "at no incremental cost over our cellphone bill" is a bit of wishful thinking. Even with G4, I'm expecting providers to charge higher volume users more. And if you're doing any streaming whatsoever, you'll be classified that way.
Also, while you can cycle that cellphone "radio" content onto more ear pleasing--and room filling--technology, I still think I'd rather have a device that functions like a radio. Then again, I am ancient (i.e.: in my mid-50s)... John Figliozzi ---- Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > It might also be that Wall Street greed has so poisoned domestic radio > in the USA -- Clear Channel et. al. must operate with low risk > strategies to meet their debt obligations that they can't invest in > new formats / content / etc. and wait for demand to catch up. > > Also, broadband access itself is more ubiquitous there than here. > > Here in the USA, we'd embrace IBOC if it yielded anything worth > listening to. IBOC here is something like DRM... the technology > missed its window. We will soon be looking at G4 mobile bandwidth > that will enable IP-based listening for no incremental cost over our > cellphone bill. At that point, unless you're rural, you won't need > radio period. > > RC > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems the European market is much more vibrant. Could this have > > anything to do with the fact that the Brits and others embraced DAB as > > opposed to what the industry did here in the U.S. with Ibiquity? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Internetradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
