Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
The success of DBS convinced telephone companies and other potential cable competitors that delivering digital video to consumers is a viable business. When such competitors analyzed the competitive issues with DBS, they saw that the lack of local content represented the biggest marketing problem.
Thus, some would-be competitors to DBS and cable sought to provide a wireless, multichannel video service with local stations called Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS), referred to by DAVIC as Multipoint Video Distribution Systems (MVDS). MMDS uses 198 MHz of licensed spectrum, which could support 33 analog TV channels, in the range of 2.5 GHz. This is low enough frequency spectrum to ...
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