The expanding role of 5G Broadcast and Multicast was one theme at MWC 2023 even if we are still largely at the stage of demonstrations and trials. Its future now looks more secure because it is drawing interest for multiple applications including disaster response and emergency services, not just distribution of linear media content simultaneously to multiple devices, as part of a streaming broadcast service. The narrower story of mobile broadcast for video is a checkered one with many false starts charted by analyst outlets such as Rethink Technology Research’s Faultline over the last two decades. Previous initiatives such as DVB-H (Handhold) and more recently 4G Broadcast have foundered because neither devices nor infrastructures were fit for delivering high resolution…