Analyst company Screen Digest claims there are more than 15 million mobile TV subscribers in Asia but the revenues from the industry are “miserable”, reports RapidTV News. Apparently Japan has 6.5 million users of free mobile TV, which is a far more believable figure than the 30+ million reported by Berg, which seemed to be based on handset availability rather than usage patterns. Screen Digest goes on to say that Sth Korea’s free T-DMB service has 4 million registered users and its pay S-DMB service has about 2.4 million subscribers, which is a boost on the 1.11 million it had at the beginning of this year. Disturbingly, Screen Digest claims that “South Korea
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