CHAPTER 12

Mobile TV Using WiMAX

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

Harold Abelson

When Dennis Sverdlov, CEO of Yota, a WiMAX company in Russia, was invited to the board of directors of the WiMAX forum by Ron Resnik, president and chairman of the forum, it was not only because his was a successful company that had garnered over 100,000 mobile WiMAX users within two months of launch. The innovative media streaming services such as Yota Music and Yota TV delivered on HTC MAX 4G handsets in their words “may be of keen interest to all WiMAX Forum members” and for good reasons.

Mobile TV using 3G or wireless networks is essentially an IP-based delivery of video to mobile devices.1 Pioneers in ...

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