Another Mayday for Terrestrial Radio
Posted by goodmind on July 15th, 2008
Forget the potential impact of the SIRIUS-XM Satellite Radio merger, Mashable has an interesting post on how the iPhone threatens the future of terrestrial radio. Or more accurately, the working relationship between Apple and AT&T spells trouble for broadcasters. Historically;
[T]he software engineers and the mobile carriers literally conspired together to prevent streaming radio from becoming a serious contender on Internet ready mobile devices. Now, they have no such compunctions, and while streaming radio is dead in its old form, like Jarvis observed, there are many new competitors like Last.FM, Pandora, and a bevvy of podcasting DJs. The portable, Internet-enabled entertainment portal is a thing of the present.
Of course, this is all contingent upon the good will of the cell phone companies to keep costs low, and services net neutral. As Mashable correctly points out, “there’s plenty of money to be made being the band provider without inhibiting those out there with their own content to push.”
While selling bandwidth isn’t as sexy as selling a high tech indulgence, we’d stand in line for a reasonable data plan…
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