> For a whole morning queue full of cars, that's a lot of bandwidth. Yes, but that's a problem for the telco's to solve, if they want to continue selling mobil

> For a whole morning queue full of cars, that's a lot of bandwidth. Yes, but that's a problem for the telco's to solve, if they want to continue selling mobile internet. So they have strong incentives to solve it. > One is emergency broadcasts How is having to buy an expensive device to listen to emergency broadcasts a benefit? One of the reasons DAB was scrapped in Sweden was this. Everyone and their grandmother has a bunch of FM radios already, no purchases necessary, it's deployed, it works. Shutting down FM means less people will be able to listen to emergency broadcasts. That's bad, not a benefit. Besides, most modern smartphones have emergency broadcast functionality that's accessible to local authorities. And everyone and their grandmother already has a smartphone. > the other is future-proofing. DAB will probably be a standard for decades. DAB or DAB+ ? The poor bleeding edgers who bought a DAB radio got pretty pissed when they had to throw it out and buy a DAB+ radio instead. All five of them. Not a good track record exactly. Meanwhile, FM has been going strong for almost 100 years now. > But what if you want built-in streaming in your car, which standard do you support? There's two: iOS CarPlay and Android Auto. Works great. Everyone already has a smartphone, and can then use whatever streaming app or service they want. > I also think we tech geeks overestimate the popularity of streaming in cars The only thing being overestimated is the general public's eagerness to run out and buy a DAB+ car radio. It's pretty much at zero. Look, broadcast radio is going away just like broadcast television. It's a dying medium. And to force a change while it's dying will only hasten its demise.