Broadband internet in the car?!
Question: When do you guys think this will start to happen? The technology is possible. A few years ago they had high speed internet on select China Airlines flights via satellite, although it was discontinued. I'm not interested in surfing the net in the car so much as I would love to be able to listen to streaming radio stations in the car. Right now, as far as radio, it's just the commercial FM, Sirius and XM and that's it. Yet there are a zillion internet radio stations created for very specific genres of music you can't even find on satellite. That would be a dream come true being able to listen to literally anything I wanted when I wanted from any country on earth, including news and talk stations from anywhere. It would be the death of Clear Channel.
Answers: When do you guys think this will start to happen? The technology is possible. A few years ago they had high speed internet on select China Airlines flights via satellite, although it was discontinued. I'm not interested in surfing the net in the car so much as I would love to be able to listen to streaming radio stations in the car. Right now, as far as radio, it's just the commercial FM, Sirius and XM and that's it. Yet there are a zillion internet radio stations created for very specific genres of music you can't even find on satellite. That would be a dream come true being able to listen to literally anything I wanted when I wanted from any country on earth, including news and talk stations from anywhere. It would be the death of Clear Channel.
Not really as the same forces that currently charge clear channel and such music rights fees will want to charge even more to the internet broadcasters as has been proposed before. Unless of course you want to pay for it, or don't mind listening to eclectic styles of music.
There is other things proposed on the horizon such as slacker.com where you control the artists you want but they control when you hear them. It's proposed to be downloaded via satillite to the radio player of there's .
We already have broadband internet in some major cities. If you are willing to pay for it in the US, speeds approach DSL over wi-fi and cellular networks (some cities offer a 128kb/s rate for free)..So technically a laptop and a wireless card can do it now.
They are working on being able to stream the music over phones such as the I-Phone without it breaking the bank to provide that stream.
Radio will still be alive in my opinion. you will have people of a lower economic state will not be able to afford to stream music such as this, you will also not be able to stream in the cities unless you have wide area wi-fi or a wide area cell network with many repeaters that have so far been proven unfeasible in cities such as San Francisco and New Orleans.
The FCC is trying to push for more clear channel style monopolies out there currently (there is a vote I believe this week by the FCC on this)
But what has been found in play is that major companies such as this do not want to play with small communities where the profit potential is not as high as say New York. So small mom and pop stations won't die, just be fewer and far between
that and radio won't die as where will you do when you have a storm , and you need information and the internet and cellular are down (such as New Orleans in 2005 during Katrina and Right now in 2007 with the wildfires that are consuming electronics such as cell towers and such at the same time as people's homes?)