In some news that aroused my interest (yes, my ears pricked up), US phone companies are going to relax their stiff regulation of adult material on mobile. In Europe, things are already quite loose, with a fairly erect market of £390m! Previously those regulations bound up tightly companies looking to release their material, but…
O2 and Endemol create ‘cell’ – mini Mobile TV series!
O2 has teamed up with Endemol to create a 20-Episode TV series called ‘Cell’, which has been made exclusively for Mobile. It starts off tomorrow, with 3 episodes coming per week at 50p each, or a package deal for £3.50.You have to be an O2 sub, and from NOW, you can text ‘cell’ to 2020…
MTV use Flixwagon software on N95s to cover Super Tuesday…
MTV today announced that it is using Flixwagon’s mobile broadcasting technology to equip an army of street team citizen journalists with the capability to deliver the first-ever live “mobile-to-Web” video broadcasts from polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies and everywhere young voters will congregate on during February 5th’s Super Tuesday event. You can find the…
10 essential factors for successful Mobile TV…
Without hanging on the detail too long, a report has been created by digital research agency ‘Tomorrow’, and commissioned by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA). It states the 10 essential factors for successful Mobile TV, of which I am going to comment on a few below – but before all that,…
Mobile TV Subscribers to reach 462 Million by 2012
I like positive reports, don’t you? It’s nice when you can read a report which says, via big numbers, that something is going to be very successful. I just happen to have one of those reports right here! ABI Research says that as Mobile TV services expand over the next 5 years, the total number…
Update: AT&T to launch Broadcast Mobile TV in next couple of weeks?
Apparently AT&T is due to launch it’s own MediaFLO-based broadcast Mobile TV in the USA in the next few weeks, after Verizon’s launch last year. Now we’ve mentioned this story before (here and here), but this most recent update states the launch is immiment – exciting times indeed! There will be 8 linear 24hr channels,…
Mobile 3.0 gets the German DVB-H licence
Mobile 3.0, a JV (joint venture) between MFD (a German Mobile TV wholesaler) and publishing house Neva Media, has been awarded a license to operate the upcoming Mobile TV platform in Germany. T-Systems obtained the license to build the network in October (something we covered at the time). The Mobile TV platform is expected to…
Qualcomm’s 2007 MediaFLO finances show greater losses
The ugly-duckling of Mobile TV standards definitely didn’t get off to a good start in 2007. MediaFLO, wholly owned by lawsuit-loving Qualcomm, has shown that 2007 wasn’t a great year for profits. MediaFlo’s 2007 statement-filing with the SEC details yet another year of red-ink. Qualcomm’s Mobile TV initiative has posted losses of $240 million for…
French Mobile TV subscribers: 1m + 200k = 1.2m!
Screendigest states that as of December 2007, there were 1.2m Mobile TV subscribers, consisting of 1 million Orange subscribers, and 200,000 from SFR. According to their research, that put France ahead of Italy as of Christmas 07. Apparently both Operators saw growth rates of over 40% in Q4 2007, due to them launching unlimited mobile…
Orange Applies for 2 DVB-H Mobile TV Licences (in France)
Orange has applied for 2 DVB-H channels in France, in response to a call for applications made by the French Audiovisual Council. The first is Orange Sports TV, which is already available via 3G Unicast (streaming). Orange Sports TV is a sports information channel, launched originally in September 2007. It is also available now via…