Thursday, April 28, 2005

TV for Mobile Phones Set to Reach Masses

"About 125 million consumers will be watching television on their mobile phone in five years from now, a new survey found on Thursday. Mobile television is not yet commercially available, but trials are carried out around the world, and consumers are expected to be able to pick up the first TV phones by the end of the year. Handset makers will sell 130,000 TV phones this year, rising to 83.5 million by 2010, research group Informa said. "

[Reuters]

Is this the end for mobile application companies like Mobitv, smartVideo, or 1KTV who offer live TV and video content to the mobile phone? Likely not.

1 comment:

Ted Shelton said...

What might be the end of MobiTV, smartVideo, and 1KTV though are companies like our, Orb Networks (www.orb.com). Instead of limiting consumers to a handful of channels, we let a consumer connect, for free, to all of the TV channels they already have in their home... best, Ted Shelton (Orb Networks)