Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Soundbite: Mobile TV uncertainties

“There is technology uncertainty, spectrum uncertainty, and also business model uncertainty: how should operators charge for the [mobile TV] service, paid for by advertising or a subscription fee?

There is additional complexity of having unicast and broadcast in the mix, with broadcasters and mobile operators potentially becoming competitors.

There are a lot of questions still to be answered with the result that there will be many different models – very much like traditional TV services.”
Ian Cox, analyst and co-founder of TelecomView

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