On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:01:08 +0000, Larry wrote:

Larry wrote in news:Xns98FDDBACE5C7Fnoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

this beautiful
blonde in the tight skirt talked me into Axcess TV:


Be advised it stops running every few minutes and asks, "Resume watching
TV?" to which you have to press YES or NO to continue. Of course, this
causes it to have to reconnect then reload its data buffer so if you were
watching a news channel, by the time it starts TV again, what you wanted to
watch is long gone.

I've made a complaint to both Alltel and MobiTV as there is no way to stop
it doing this, no options to chose from. I paid for UNLIMITED DATA to feed
it. I don't need to be disconnected every few minutes, forcing me to
reconnect it. Damned cellular BS!

If this can't be fixed, I may only keep it one month (not refundable).....
Damn them all....


Larry

Larry,
The disconnecting every few minutes and the seeking of confirmation
that you want to continue is something that your provider instituted.
It is not a necessity of the technology. With unlimited data plans,
there is no charge for individual packets (depending on the plan) and
thus they obviously wish to disconnect if you are not actively
watching TV. There is no technical reason apart from network and
access capacity on the IN why a 'disconnect' or 'continue' should be
forced. Once a connection is established it could continue forever.

I worked as a Tech. project manager for Vodafone with MMS (multimedia
messaging and a few other core network projects. My colleague next to
me was working on mobile tv. Of course we knew a lot about each
other's projects.
cheers
Peter