Hmm, I wonder…
The number of mobile broadcast TV subscribers in Western Europe is expected to pass 20m by 2011, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
However, following the exit of the BT/Virgin Mobile DAB-IP offering from the market, the UK is not expected to relaunch mobile broadcast TV services until 2010 at the very earliest, well behind most of its European neighbours.
Broadcast TV (as you get at home) won’t be nationwide in the UK until the last of the analogue masts are switched off and DVB-H is switched on. That’ll be between 2010 and 2012. So, no, the UK won’t get broadcast TV on mobiles until then.
You can watch mobile TV on-demand right now, of course, over 2.5G GPRS, 3G and Wi-Fi.
Mobile TV is a reality in counties around the Globe – and a much sought after prospective source of revenue from advertisers who will have a (Mobile) relativley affluent group of users.
The realisties in the UK are far from clear – but the likely hood of deploying the world leading T-DMB technology in advance of other far less developed technologies with far fewer receivers for consumers to use.
There are already nearly 200 receivers (Mobile Telephone, PMP, etc) – The reality of Mobile TV is here already – we do not have to await a technology or spectrum – both ar ehere already!