OMVC: Mobile DTV Beats Broadband

Reacting to the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan and its call for transferring a big hunk of TV broadcasting spectrum to wireless broadband, proponents of broadcasting's nascent mobile DTV service said that the service is better than broadband for delivery of mobile video and that the government should not choke off the spectrum needed for it.

"We believe it is critical that broadcasters retain their share of spectrum to encourage new services like mobile DTV," said Colleen Brown, CEO of Fisher Communications and head of the public policy working group of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, a coalition of TV stations that has been developing the mobile DTV service.