The Indian government is facing strong resistance from device makers regarding its plan to mandate the addition of ATSC 3.0 technology, also known as NexGen TV, which allows smartphones to receive | Analyst Neil Shah with Counterpoint said, “In the age of OTT, video on demand and live streaming over the internet, this is a step back when it comes to broadcasting content to mobile."
It still requires being in range of a (network of) wireless transmitter(s). I’d have written ‘without mobile networks’ or ‘cellular networks’ or ‘data connection’ or ‘IP networks’ as it’s a broadcast and not a two-way communication.
Sure, it’s nitpicking and they’re technically correct but it’s also imprecise wording. It’s still wireless transmissions and not magic.
The government believes mandating ATSC 3.0 in smartphones will help bring down network congestion in wireless networks.
So, over-the-air television uses broadcasting. You broadcast one signal, everyone in the area can receive it. You can have one viewer or a million viewers and it takes the same amount of bandwidth.
But if everyone is streaming video unicast, the way they typically would over the Internet from somewhere like YouTube – which has the benefit of letting people watch whatever they want, whenever they want, independent of anyone else, you can’t do that; you can’t have a million viewers in a cell, or anything approaching that, because bandwidth consumption scales linearly with the number of viewers.
I know that the US emergency alert system uses broadcasting over the cell network, so there has to be at least limited support for broadcasting in the cell network, though. I dunno if cell providers use it for pushing out system updates to phones, but if they don’t, I suspect that they should.
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It sounds like there is some kind of way to do broadcast/multicast within 5G, though.
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Do the writers know what a broadcast is and what wireless means?
I mean… it’s not a network technically. it’s a broadcast station (though the stations themselves are networks)
It still requires being in range of a (network of) wireless transmitter(s). I’d have written ‘without mobile networks’ or ‘cellular networks’ or ‘data connection’ or ‘IP networks’ as it’s a broadcast and not a two-way communication.
Sure, it’s nitpicking and they’re technically correct but it’s also imprecise wording. It’s still wireless transmissions and not magic.
ATSC 3.0 is just a scheme to turn free, over the air TV into another cable. Ever increasing prices.
It’s certainly beginning to look that way. DRM ruins everything.
Interesting. Why do they even want this technology on all phones?
I haven’t been following the issue, but:
So, over-the-air television uses broadcasting. You broadcast one signal, everyone in the area can receive it. You can have one viewer or a million viewers and it takes the same amount of bandwidth.
But if everyone is streaming video unicast, the way they typically would over the Internet from somewhere like YouTube – which has the benefit of letting people watch whatever they want, whenever they want, independent of anyone else, you can’t do that; you can’t have a million viewers in a cell, or anything approaching that, because bandwidth consumption scales linearly with the number of viewers.
I know that the US emergency alert system uses broadcasting over the cell network, so there has to be at least limited support for broadcasting in the cell network, though. I dunno if cell providers use it for pushing out system updates to phones, but if they don’t, I suspect that they should.
googles
https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2022/12/multicast-broadcast-group-communication
It sounds like there is some kind of way to do broadcast/multicast within 5G, though.