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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first DVB-SH trial launched in Turin by the Italian broadcaster RAI, the mobile operator 3 Italia, Alcatel-Lucent and Eutelsat has shown promising results. The initial results of the trial demonstrated the high reception performances of the new technology for mobile TV on commercial terminals. Once fully deployed, this solution will capture mobile TV signals […]
MobiTV has surpassed six million subscribers on its managed mobile media service. Available on more than 350 handsets across 20 carrier networks, including AT&T and Alltel in the US, MobiTV attributes its growth to increasing consumer demand for TV on mobile devices, the proliferation of smart phones and a growing trend toward bundling TV and […]