FLO TV Incorporated, provider of the award-winning FLO TV live mobile TV service and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has announced the expansion of its service in 19 markets around the country. The expansion extends FLO TV’s coverage for more than 10 million potential new viewers ahead of the June 12th final date for […]
RIM may be launching a full-length TV service for its Blackberry customers as early as next week at CTIA. "It will be a paid-for unlimited monthly subscription service," according to the NewTeeVee blog. "Content will be downloaded through a Wi-Fi connection The service has managed to license content from multiple broadcast and cable networks." The […]
The number of people receiving Mobile TV will reach 472 million by 2013 according to an analysis by Cantab Wireless. The report – Mobile TV – Technologies, Country Cases, and Forecasts for 2009-2013 – argues that subscriber growth is anticipated to be strongest in Asia at first, especially in Korea and Japan. From 2010 onwards, […]
Approximately 40 million users watch mobile TV based on broadcast networks, in addition to those watching mobile TV streams via 3G networks – but this is well below initial projections and only about 1% of all mobile phone users. Even the business models in markets with sizeable numbers of broadcast mobile TV subscribers – such […]
Vodafone has joined the growing band of firms that have removed copyright controls from music they sell. The operator said much of the music it offers would be free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems by the summer. It has signed deals with Universal, Sony, and EMI to offer the tracks without controls. Increasing numbers […]
As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to soar in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to dramatically increase their spending on “third-screen” ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research. Pyramid predicts […]
A report from Juniper Research warns that, while its best case forecasts estimate that the mobile entertainment market will reach nearly $36 billion in 2010, revenue growth will be markedly lower if the global recession fails to bottom-out over the next twelve months. Using a scenario-based approach to assess the impact of the recession on […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Sogecable’s mobile pay-TV offer Digital Plus Mobile is now available on Telefonica’s mobile phone network Movistar, following a distribution agreement. Telefonica’s 6.2 million 3G clients can have access to the Digital Plus Mobile’s 21 TV channels package, covering cinema, entertainment, sports, music, children programming, news and X cinema. The […]
The Nielsen Company has reported that viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices continues to increase and has reached new heights. In its fourth quarter "Three Screen Report", Nielsen said that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. Meanwhile, Americans who watch video over the […]
From Colin Mann in London The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global trade association of the mobile entertainment industry has revealed findings from its first quarterly Business Confidence Index (BCI) for the $32 billion global mobile entertainment industry. Based on the findings, the industry is confident it will continue to grow despite the economic downturn. […]