Vivendi CEO Says French Regulators Holding Back Mobile TV

Which of course is true anywhere in the world…the frequencies on which mobile TV trasmits (various) are already occupied by other service and would take some time to work through and free up.
Jean-Bernard Levy, chairman of Vivendi Universal, the French telecoms and media group, said that its mobile phone arm SFR already had 30,000 subscribers to its TV service and could overtake iTunes as the leading mobile music download site in France by year end (TV vs mobile music service…I am confused on the wording in this Reuters story). On regulation, he said that “At the moment, one frequency is blocked by each (mobile TV) communication toward a subscriber. We need to move to having one frequency per TV channel, which would be more efficient and reduce prices.”
On gaming, he predicted that games mobile games could, in time, represent 20 percent of total turnover of the company’s Vivendi Universal Games division.

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