Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
According to a new report, Asia-Pacific is leading the adoption of mobile TV broadcasting. About 38 million viewers – almost 78 percent of the total mobile TV audience – was found in Japan and South Korea in mid-2007.
These markets, according to Stockholm-based
analyst firm Berg Insight, are several years ahead of Europe and North
America where the development in most cases has been very slow.
“We believe that regular mobile networks will remain the dominant
carrier for mobile video, at least for the next couple of years”, said
Sabine Ehlers, associate analyst, Berg Insight.
The significant costs involved in establishing the infrastructure
needed for dedicated mobile broadcast networks is expected to hold back
large-scale launching of these in the greater part of Europe for a few
more years.
The report plays down the relevance of the current mobile TV standards
war, predicting that multi-standard handsets and chips will eventually
reduce choice of underlying network to a technical consideration only
concerning the manufacturers and network operators. Additionally, Berg
Insight foresees the possibility that in the long term all technologies
providing mobile TV and other video services, as well as radio
services, will be IP-based.
David Bass
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