ABI Research has predicted that there’ll be 4 million people in the US receiving entertainment and information on their wireless handsets via mobile broadcast technologies such as DVB-H and MediaFLO by the end of 2007.
Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm is skeptical, citing Verizon Wireless COO and VP Lowell McAdam as saying the carrier won’t be launching a mobile broadcast TV service with MediaFLO until midway through next year.
“A recent ABI Research study, “Broadcast and Unicast Mobile TV Services” forecasts that in 2011, mobile TV services will have some 514 million subscribers worldwide. Of that total, the research indicates, 460 million will be subscribers to broadcast services. Broadcast services will have 1.5 million subscribers by the end of 2006. In the US market, most subscribers will be enabled by the wireless carriers’ broadcast network partners, including MediaFLO (a subsidiary of Qualcomm), Aloha’s Hiwire network, and Crown Castle’s Modeo service.”
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