Patent ID: 8903398

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a plurality of wireless sites connected to a terrestrial network, a substantially similar set of media that includes a plurality of individual media independent of a local user request for any of the plurality of individual media in the set of media, wherein each of the wireless sites includes a satellite antenna and satellite receiver via which the set of media is received from a broadcast transmission from a satellite; detecting for the presence of one or more errors in the set of media received from the broadcast transmission from the satellite; storing, by each of the wireless sites, the set of media, wherein each of the wireless sites stores the set of media in a local edge proxy server of the wireless site; receiving, by one of the plurality of the wireless sites, a request for a live stream of media from a mobile station; accessing, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, the requested media from the set of media stored in the local edge proxy server; transmitting, by one of the plurality of wireless sites, the live stream of media to the mobile station; receiving, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, a handoff indication of the mobile station; identifying, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, a current position of the live media stream; transferring, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, an indication of the current position of the live media stream, wherein the transferring of the indication of the current position of the live media stream is performed by distributing, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, the indication of the current position of the live media stream to the mobile station, and transmitting, by the mobile station to another of the plurality of wireless sites, the distributed indication of the current position of the live media stream; terminating, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, transmission of the live media stream to the mobile station; and supporting, by the one of the plurality of wireless sites, voice communications between the mobile station and a wireless network provider's core network via the terrestrial network connected to the one of the plurality of wireless sites.