How does mobile TV in Europe compare with other world regions?
Worldwide there is strong interest in mobile TV. South Korea is at the forefront of this developing sector. Mobile phone users have been able to watch seven channels of live pay TV, delivered via satellite, since May 2005 and a free-to-air terrestrial mobile TV service went live in Seoul late last year. In Japan, mobile TV attracts more than 7 million customers. In the US, mobile phone users have been accessing live broadcast TV since late 2003. In China, the government is pushing for mobile TV availability in the Beijing area for the 2008 Olympic Games. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television backs the development of a China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard and is advocating its adoption as China’s main mobile TV technology. Their goal is to deploy nationally CMMB in the first half of 2008.
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