On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:37:09 +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:

> A 3G internet car radio with a reasonable number of presets doesn't need
> us to invent anything new - just to extend and reconfigure what we've
> already got. With literally thousands of radio stations, everybody can
> have their choice of quality or quantity.

Untill they are all trying to listen through one cell in a traffic
jam on the M6...

As a broadcast medium the internet is not upto it, at least with
todays system. If multicast ever gets out there in a meaningful way
things might be different but how many connections can a single 3G
cell support at say 128kbps each susutained?

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Cheers
Dave.