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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’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]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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