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Article: Outside the mobile TV box.
- Article from:
- Total Telecom Online
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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Byline: Jim Morrish, Analysys Consulting
Most observers of the telecoms industry, as well as many participants, consider mobile TV as simply being TV on a mobile phone. Given the widespread acceptance of this viewpoint, most of the current debate around mobile TV focuses on distribution technologies, business models and value chains.
But the reality of mobile TV may be significantly different from current expectations for a number of different reasons.
At present the main areas of debate tend to fall into the following three categories:
Broadcasting technologies: Currently, mobile TV is mainly streamed over 3G networks, but this is an inefficient use of ...