TV Phones Prep for Prime Time

This article unashamedly promotes TV on your mobile as potentially outshining current mobile data darlings such as ringtones and SMS. Ringtones maybe, but I doubt anything will surpass SMS in the near future. The article cites some figures from In-Stat – such as subscribers to a mobile TV service jumping to 1.2 million in 2005 – without much background, and points out that “an In-Stat survey of 1,009 people done in February showed that Americans are far more excited about mobile TV than about any other data application offered so far”. Nevertheless, there is some interesting reading here about what the major players are doing and where the technology may head.

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