Friend or foe? The most trumpeted development in personal communications since the launch of mobile phones itself is finally being rolled across to the market. What's in it for content providers? And will it complement or usurp the television audience?("tv" on the go)
Asia Image, May, 2005 by Dean, Richard
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Like most Big Bang initiatives in consumer electronics, the worldwide release of large chunks of bandwidth to mobile handsets has been greeted with a mixture of zealotry and cynicism in more or less equal measure.
While supporters predict the dawning of a new age of convergence (again), sceptics say enhanced services will struggle to match the high profitability of conventional voice calls, and in the case of video could be delivered more efficiently by other means.
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But first, let's get some of the marketing claims, technology, and jargon out of the way. The system was ...
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