Nextwave sells some snake oil - IPTV for mobile Wimax

Here’s a bit of snake oil , cooked up for the investment folks to force on unsuspecting Wimax carriers to help pump stock prices promising huge profits from mobile pay tv.

NextWave Wireless Inc. plans to introduce today broadcast technology that will give WiMAX operators the ability to deliver multimedia services like mobile TV and digital audio over their networks.

NextWave’s new MXtv technology is compatible with the 802.16e standard, the company said.

The company said its MXtv technology will be a standard feature on its future WiMAX infrastructure products. In addition, NextWave said it signed a joint development agreement with Huawei Technologies USA that calls for Huawei to integrate MXtv into its WiMAX products. (from RCR News)

Here’s the rub: There’s already Mobile Wimax TV anywhere there’s mobile Wimax - called TVoIP. Will a big carrier or two buy in? Probably. They may even get a brief revenue bump out of it, before a sudden fatal crash. The reason? Closed systems don’t work anymore. Ask the big 3 networks who a rushing to get all of their content into the cloud. Even if it’s pay TV, you need to be out in the largeness of the ether, not in a walled garden if you are going to maximize your audience.