“If it’s only mobile TV, we’re dissatisfied, we’re not
happy with it,” Bill Stone, the Flo unit’s head, said in an
interview. “There are going to be a lot of revenue streams off
this service.”
Stone says the strain on mobile-phone networks caused by
ballooning demand for video and data should make Flo attractive
to service providers and phone makers. Flo works on a system
using airwaves that Qualcomm bought in federal auctions. Flo-
enabled devices have separate radios and chips that enable them
to receive the service from Qualcomm’s transmitters.
“One person streaming a video takes up as much bandwidth
as 100 cell phone calls,” said Stone. “Networks break down and
can’t handle it. For me, whether I have one or 1 million users,
it doesn’t matter.”
Distributing magazines with high-resolution pictures is
another area where Flo can send content to mobile devices more
effectively than wireless-service providers, Stone said. His
network would broadcast the data to everyone at once, with only
handsets that have subscriptions enabled to access the files.
3G vs 4G
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter will stick around
TV and radio will see the shifts that print saw
Pandora in your car, Internet TV
Internet of Things