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Swiss Mobile TV take-up disappointing

Categories: DVB-H, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 5:30 PM

Swisscom’s Broadcast chief has spoken during the “Biel Bienne Communication Days”, and said that their Mobile TV service is not meeting expectations – his reasoning: not enough DVB-H capable devices!

Up until recently the Nokia N77 was the only device receiving service – however that has now expanded to four devices (I can only assume the big-hitter N96 is in the mix somewhere…). Swisscom has about 5000 Mobile TV users, but this number should rise with the increase in variety of devices by 4x!

[Via: broadbandtvnews.com]

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