Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
by eptcyka on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:20AM
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One good reason to use FM instead of the internet is that it scales better - you can have practically infinte receivers, wheras most digital radio on the internet will deliver the same content for each listener individually, thus using more bandwidth per listener.
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5G has a broadcast option, but I’m not sure if that’s supported by any commercially available phone yet.
Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
by namibj on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:49PM
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Apart from some old 3G tech demos with TV streaming, none of the user data multi/broad cast functionality from 3GPP cellphone standards reached a usable state in consumer hardware, with the single obvious exception being cell broadcast (basically broadcast SMS, by my understanding).
I’m also very doubtful, but at least in Austria it’s being touted as a potential DAB alternative.
(That might just be a strategic device by the incumbent public transmitter operator though – they have ubiquitous FM coverage, which helps avoid competing programs on DAB out by decreasing the utility of buying a DAB receiver.)
Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
by eptcyka on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:44AM
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5g having broadcast is closer to FM rather than the internet. Broadcast does not work on the internet.
Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
by musicale on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:23AM
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RTP and multicast though...