Based on Fixed Mobile Broadcast Convergence (FMBC) technology developed by KDDI’s R&D labs, the new service is a fresh take on digital consumption that employs converged access portals, a web-assisted recommendations engine, ambient adaptive viewing, and location-aware preferences. The platform allows an advanced breed of convergence service operator to embrace the myriad consumer devices available to the modern user.

Better utilizes the strengths and assets of a converged operator, ensuring maximized returns on expensive infrastructure. Targets the mobility and diversity of subscriber devices.
Accesses a dynamic gold mine of always-fresh social buzz that’s transparently associated with other content being served. Increasingly important in the FMBC arena, this engine leverages an operator’s asset library alongside the borderless database of social networks, blogs, news feeds and online media.
Enjoying a complete video whilst travelling might not be convenient nor attractive. Adaptive viewing presents users with a new way to view video on the move, with high quality, comic-style renditions of full programs. Mobilized video is not just about squeezing content onto a small screen, or condensing a high quality version over a lower bandwidth. Ambient viewing automatically packages video in a format that provides for fast and silent viewing, whilst adapting to the strengths of the mobile device.