In article <nyyfbegfubjuvyypbz.kltsum3.pminews@srv1.howhill.n et>, Dave
Liquorice <allsortsnotthisbit@howhill.com> scribeth thus
>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?
>

I don't reckon its ideal but according to an Orange engineer I was
talking to on a transmitter site, he said that you could regard it as a
40 megabit capacity wi-fi point and that was just that cell of which
there're rolling out more and more as time goes by!...
--
Tony Sayer