According to Phonescoop Cingular CTO, Kris Rinne, yesterday revealed that the carrier is looking at other options to deliver video to its subscribers. With MediaFLO or Modeo possibily in play to deliver video over Cingular's terrestrial network, Rinne said they're looking to a new satellite video provider - who explicitely is not DISH or DirecTV. Curious. We know to expect XM Video and SIRIUS Video sometime soon, but will Cingular's cell network be the delivery method?
Now, combine that with the recent Lucent patent of delivering satellite radio over cell networks, and you've got yourself a plausible story. Remember that Lucent won a contract with Cingular back in Q405 to provide IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services across Cingular's entire network.
The question is, which satellite radio/video provider could be in play? With SIRIUS already in bed with Sprint, it seems that makes XM winner by default, but that's just speculation folks.
[Phonescoop]
Thanks cb!
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