Nokia: Mobile TV roll outs slower than expected
By Dusan Belic on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 2:20 AM PST In Mobile TV, Nokia
Nokia said on Friday its push to promote mobile TV has not succeeded as they’ve hoped. Even after winning the EU support for DVB-H standard, only a few operators in Europe have opened any mobile TV broadcasting service. To be fair, many operators are in the midst of trialing the service while others are waiting to see whether it can fly or not, and eventually hop on board later.
“It’s a bit in a turmoil,” Niklas Savander, head of Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s Internet services, told a conference in Helsinki. “We have seen that there are multiple segments who are not interested in the broadcasting, but rather in downloads. Roll out is slower than also we anticipated a couple of years ago,” Savander added.
There you have it. Not that people don’t dig mobile TV — we prefer video capable handsets coupled with unlimited data plans. Though, that’s not something Nokia’s directly responsible for.
[Via: Reuters]
I can’t see it taking off at all. On demand is where it’s at now, not that I’d use that either. Until someone can fit a 20 inch screen in my pocket I’ll stick with the TV.