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WiMAX AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING: INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Mobile WiMAX networks that permit broadcast or multicast of content with interactivity via broadband internet present a new ecosystem in which connected communities can be integrated with broadcasting, content sharing, and even office functions. This is an entirely new domain, which the advertising world has long envisioned and attempted, but it is only now, with the capabilities of connectivity via WiMAX and its IPv6 capabilities that these are coming to full realization.

Each innovative opportunity unveiled by the nonconventional manner in which video and broadcast ...

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