Must read: WSJ does a story on Nokia’s latest 7700, and wonders whether there’s a business model to beaming TV onto mobiles: “f consumers do decide to watch television on pocket-sized devices, they may simply tune into free-to-air broadcasts rather than paying to have the television pictures transmitted over a cellphone network….Many commuters on trains in and out of London, for example, listen to radio broadcasts picked up by FM tuners in their mobile phones. Those broadcasts are available for free from radio stations and they don’t generate any revenues for the cellphone service provider.”
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