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Friday, August 18, 2006
Infonetics Research believes in mobile video
In a new report about mobile video services Infonetics Research expects a 12000% increase in revenue in 5 years, and even coining video as the wave of the future.
Infonetics is fair to point out that there are lots of issues to solve to get there, like:
availability of handsets with reduced power consumption, value for the subscriber's money, ease of use, acceptable price points for multimedia handsets, and most importantly, the right selection of standard and unique channels, content, and services
Yet they believe these issues can be quickly solved. If the operators are not the service providers I believe a continuing issue will be too high rates for streaming video (via the mobile bearer or DVB-H or similar) to the phones. It requires very strong media companies to convince operators that they need to adapt rates to the value of the content, and maybe even set up flat rate subscriptions that involve both the service providers and the operators.
Mobile Video Service Revenue Set to Skyrocket to $5.6 billion by 2009
Infonetics is fair to point out that there are lots of issues to solve to get there, like:
availability of handsets with reduced power consumption, value for the subscriber's money, ease of use, acceptable price points for multimedia handsets, and most importantly, the right selection of standard and unique channels, content, and services
Yet they believe these issues can be quickly solved. If the operators are not the service providers I believe a continuing issue will be too high rates for streaming video (via the mobile bearer or DVB-H or similar) to the phones. It requires very strong media companies to convince operators that they need to adapt rates to the value of the content, and maybe even set up flat rate subscriptions that involve both the service providers and the operators.
Mobile Video Service Revenue Set to Skyrocket to $5.6 billion by 2009
