CES: Verizon's McAdam Sees Broadcast Video Over LTE in 2014

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By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/8/2013 9:46:00 PM

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Las Vegas -- Verizon Communications chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said the company is working on a technology to broadcast live TV over Verizon Wireless' 4G Long Term Evolution network -- a development he hopes to see as early as next year.

McAdam discussed the project in a keynote address here at the 2013 International CES that was devoid of major product announcements or demonstrations.

Broadcasting live video over LTE, the way television signals are delivered today, rather than in a unicast fashion where each individual receiver has a separate session could let the wireless carrier deliver Super Bowl-scale audiences, according to McAdam.

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