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Is mobile video more complicated than the wireline?

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Is mobile video more complicated than the wireline?

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: In mobile, there’s more uncertainty about the actual applications. I don’t know how big a market there is for watching video on a mobile device. I’ve seen estimates that it could grow to a $6 billion market by 2012 or 2011, but I don’t know exactly what that means. Ericsson, Redback’s parent company, is big in mobile infrastructure. We’re seeing HSPA [a software upgrade that helps carriers upgrade subscribers to true broadband speeds over existing GSM Networks] evolving now. So in this country, we’re going from cells that can broadcast from 3.6 megabits to 7.2. Then there will be some hardware tweaks, and we’ll jump to 14.4 megabits, and then the next generation starts at above 100 megabits per cell. That’s shared by people in the cell, but you can also have multiple radios if you need them. So in five years, certainly a megabit or two would be reasonable to pull from a crowded cell. In that world, you’ll have enabled video that would look ok on the big screen. So does mobile broadba

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