Mobile Television Meets WiMAX

What happens when you take two of the most popular technologies in the last 50 years - television and the cell phone - and bring them together? Furthermore, what if you could simplify the delivery and management of that experience through a single, global wireless broadband standard?

This week at CTIA in Orlando, Florida, a California-based company will be demonstrating television over a mobile WiMAX network. Last August, the company announced its support for mobile WiMAX and that is was working to integrate it into a broad range of emerging video and television technologies. It also offered a demonstration earlier this year at CES in Las Vegas.

"One of the things we are showing is how well suited WiMAX is for television and video," says MobiTV's CTO Kay Johansson. "WIMAX gives you true mobile internet with streaming as high as 1Mbps which delivers very good quality video to a number of devices including mobile phones, PCs and PDAs."