TV on your phone
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3566995
Jan 13th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Both fixed and mobile telecoms operators are getting into television
IN RECENT years the mobile phone has turned into an electronic
jack-of-all-trades, the remote control for everyday life, a digital
equivalent of the Swiss Army knife. A modern handset can function as a
digital camera, music player, radio, games console and messaging
device, as well as being a phone. On January 10th, trials began in
South Korea of a new service that incorporates yet another device into
the handset: television. TU Media, a joint venture between SK Telecom
and Toshiba, a Japanese electronics firm, began beaming three of a
planned 12 mobile-TV channels to special handsets, a service for which
it plans to charge subscribers $11 a month. In Europe and America,
meanwhile, Nokia, the world's leading handset-maker, is also testing
mobile TV services: the most elaborate trial so far, with 500 users,
will start soon in the English city of Oxford, in conjunction with O2,
a European operator.
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