Polish DVB-H mobile TV services provider Info-TV-FM has released the details of its wholesale offer and opened the service to testers in Warsaw with compatible mobile phones. Albert Kuzmicz, president of one of the company’s main backers Magna Polonia, told local reporters that the company is in talks with mobile operators on launching commercial services […]
Qualcomm subsidiary FLO TV is introducing a new consumer device for receiving its live mobile TV service, which is transmitted digitally on UHF Ch. 55 spectrum. The new "FLO TV Personal Television" is the latest effort from FLO TV, formerly known as MediaFLO, to expand its subscription mobile TV broadcasts to platforms beyond cellphones. The […]
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is reportedly planning to launch a mobile TV service using the DVB-H standard in 2010. The German telco's mobile unit T-Mobile is said to be in talks with Mobile Broadcast over the rollout of a network of DVB-H transmitters. This would mark the third attempt to launch a mobile TV service in […]
Leading US cable operator Comcast has confirmed plans to offer subscribers the option to watch the company's TV shows on mobile devices through its new wireless Internet service. The company is also exploring adding a voice option to the wireless package that would put it Comcast recently started rolling out its wireless Internet services in […]
QuickPlay Media has unveiled the findings of its latest quarterly US consumer consumption analysis. The results-aggregate usage statistics from 17 representative QuickPlay-powered services revealed a rise in consumer demand for video downloads as well as a sharp increase in average length of stream views. The latest findings, compiled between April 1st and June 30th, 2009, […]
According to an InfoCom study the number of mobile TV users continues to grow but there is still no proven business model so far. Japan, South Korea and Italy are the leading markets for broadcast-based mobile TV services but mobile TV subscriber growth in these markets is driven mainly by free or partly-free access and […]
FLO TV, provider of the FLO TV live mobile TV, and Rentrak, a multi-screen media measurement and research company serving the entertainment industry, have aligned to launch the mobile television industry’s first comprehensive viewership and advertising impression reporting using Rentrak’s TV Essentials media measurement system. Through their collaboration, FLO TV and Rentrak will deliver reporting […]
Mobile TV has so far failed to deliver on its promise of ubiquity, but analysts expect global user numbers to increase to 54 million in 2009. Analysts also predict that by 2013 there will be about 300 million people watching TV on the so-called 'third screen.' The study, conducted by In-Stat, revealed that mobile TV […]
Mobile operator O2 has unveiled its new mobile TV service. However, the service is only available on certain handsets, with the iPhone absent from the list. The mobile TV package will be divided into two offerings: the lifestyle pack, which includes entertainment, music, and news from channels such as RTE News Now, CNN and the […]
Telegent Systems and independent market research and consultancy firm In-Stat have revealed that the number of free-to-air mobile TV users worldwide will reach 54 million this year. A white paper predicts six fold growth to 300 million users by 2013 and highlights common global mobile TV usage trends revealed by primary research conducted by Telegent […]