Report: dedicated mobile TV networks face uncertain future

In my opinion, streaming TV will never match the quality and capacity of broadcast networks. The achilles heel of broadcast mobile TV has been lack of adequate supporting handsets and adequate amt of content in the appropriate format


Cellular News notes that a new study has found that disappointing adoption levels of existing mobile TV services, allied to competition both from streamed mobile services facilitated by the growing prevalence of Wi-Fi and from mobile reception of free-to-air terrestrial networks, has led to growing disillusionment within the industry. The Juniper Research report found that the number of paying subscribers to networks based on standards such as DVB-H, DMB, CMMB and MediaFLO were not expected to exceed 10 million globally until 2013 at the earliest - by which time more than 180 million mobile customers will be subscribing to 3G/4G/Wi-Fi enabled mobile TV services.