Is Wireless Media Ready for Prime Time?
By David Haskin April 24, 2002 Wireless streaming media is almost ready for prime time, which means that the success of wireless operators requires that they determine precisely what media content their users want, a study released Tuesday by Datacomm Research Company and AccuStream iMedia Research said. “Wireless streaming is ready for prime time, and operators need to know the leading content brands and how they stack up against each other,” said Paul Palumbo, research director for AccuStream iMedia Research and primary author of the report. The study noted that the top Internet video sites such as AOL, RealNetworks and WWF.com, delivered 143 million streams in February of this year. The top audio sites such as Real Networks, Yahoo Broadcast and MusicMatch delivered more than 64 million hours of content during the same month. The report claimed that streaming wireless audio will do better than video at first because it requires less bandwidth and doesn’t require advanced hardware suc
