TV on the mobile phones?
Japanese DoCoMo, on the top of the game in Asia, said that it wants to start field trials of streaming television over its 3G services. It doesn’t specify more with regard to the service, for example if it is streaming the service or how, but it is an interesting offering and a move ahead in the 3G development.
The Kyodo News of today also reports that KDDI developed a prototype such handsets, showing that the market for it is heating up in Japan. But not all is rosy with this technology in Asia as Asia Pulse reports that in Korea, the regulators postponed the adoption of a national digital television to review a European technology as well as the United States' standard.
It is interesting to support those news with some more related once. Namely that a news release by Telecom in the Netherlands forecasts that there is a huge market for digital TV in 2010, reaching 120 million users. It is not quite clear on which basis or sample the study is based but the paper also forecast that Asia will have the highest penetration of cellular TV services, followed by the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Africa. Apparently the service in Europe is bound to take of earlier as Germany and Finland have developed mobile devices that combine digital TV and mobile phone, aimed at offering commercial operations from 2006.
What do you think – watching TV on the mobile phone? May be just the sport or breaking news? By then, TV should also be on in the PDA’s (if they haven’t been merged totally with mobile phones anyway, or streaming TV should be available on the desktops. Not sure, if the development is company centric, or if it plays to the taste of the consumers, and may be, again, some dreaming numbers have been spit out??
(By Asia Business Consulting)
The Kyodo News of today also reports that KDDI developed a prototype such handsets, showing that the market for it is heating up in Japan. But not all is rosy with this technology in Asia as Asia Pulse reports that in Korea, the regulators postponed the adoption of a national digital television to review a European technology as well as the United States' standard.
It is interesting to support those news with some more related once. Namely that a news release by Telecom in the Netherlands forecasts that there is a huge market for digital TV in 2010, reaching 120 million users. It is not quite clear on which basis or sample the study is based but the paper also forecast that Asia will have the highest penetration of cellular TV services, followed by the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Africa. Apparently the service in Europe is bound to take of earlier as Germany and Finland have developed mobile devices that combine digital TV and mobile phone, aimed at offering commercial operations from 2006.
What do you think – watching TV on the mobile phone? May be just the sport or breaking news? By then, TV should also be on in the PDA’s (if they haven’t been merged totally with mobile phones anyway, or streaming TV should be available on the desktops. Not sure, if the development is company centric, or if it plays to the taste of the consumers, and may be, again, some dreaming numbers have been spit out??
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 5:18 pm
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