MobiTV closes UK office, cuts off 3 and Orange
The king of mobile television content, MobiTV, has shut down its British office to focus squarely on the burgeoning U.S. market. While mobile TV still is in its infancy here in the U.S., we'd think there was more immediate potential across the pond. Guess not. MobiTV is shuttering services it provides to UK carriers 3 and Orange, along with jettisoning the J2ME app that makes mobile TV possible on the Orange network (according to reports). Hey, at least MobiTV still loves Windows Mobile, right?[Via mocoNews]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
L.Rawlins @ Apr 29th 2007 10:14AM
It's probably because the hardware is on its way to cutting out the middle man over here.
Especially with the license fee we already pay for broadcast service to our homes 'over the air'.
No-one was going to swallow extra tariffs on prior licenses in the longer term when DVB hits the handset.
Vinicius Vasconcellos @ May 1st 2007 2:30PM
The problem is that this kind of service is inefficient and expensive.
MobiTV says it is TV on the mobile, but the fact is that the service is only a streaming (unicast) provider, I mean if lots of people use the service in the same area (a sports stadium, for example) the network cannot handle the throughput.
And worst, you have to pay for the subscription and the data traffic.
The fact is that we will have to wait a little longer for broadcast and multicast video services.
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